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EMENDATIONS IN AESCHYLUS 


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GOSPEL OF ST. MATTHEW, V., 22, 


BY 


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Alexander Mason Rogers, of Scotch-Irish descent, was a 
native of Baltimore, Maryland, a member of a family many 
of whose names are well known in the annals of science. The 
leisure moments of a busy life devoted to the duties of his 
profession as a lawyer were given to scholarly research. This 
was his recreation and delight. Even when in such feeble 
health as would have debarred most men from intellectual 
labor, his beloved books were never laid aside. The Curae 
Aeschyleae was truly a labor of love, and having completed 
the work he left in writing this request : 

“ Having spent many years (some eight or nine) in efforts 
to restore the text of Aeschylus, and having made many singu- 
lar and valuable discoveries, as I feel assured, I am anxious 
that the results of so much labor and diligence shall not 
perish. Should I die before securing the publication of these 
labors, I trust that my sisters will make arrangements for 
publication, selecting a competent scholar to edit the work. 


Born July 26, 1824. 
Died Dec. 26, 1889. 


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EDITOR’S PREFACE. 





In his notes and emendations on Aeschylus (written as they 
occurred to him in an interleaved copy of Wellauer’s edition 
of 1827) Mr. Rogers marked with the words ‘ Final’ and ‘ Re- 
jected’ those corrections which met with his ultimate approval 
and those which he abandoned—drawing a line through the 
former word and substituting the latter (often too adding the 
date of the change), if a better emendation suggested itself. 
Those marked ‘ Final’ he left explicit directions to publish. 
A very few others which he prefaced with a point of interro- 
gation were to be examined, and withheld or not, as should 
appear best. Little discretion therefore was left to the editor, 
his labor being merely to discover and copy from the often 
closely written page just which reading was the last preferred. 
Hence the work stands very nearly as Mr. Rogers wrote it. 
But the Greek names of the gods have been occasionally 
substituted in the interest of uniformity, where the author 
had used the Latin equivalents ; and the wording of the notes 
has sometimes, but rarely, been altered. What the editor 
himself adds by way of explanation or of reference—some- 
times too permitting himself a note of dissent—is enclosed in 
brackets. Otherwise his responsibility is only that of an 
amanuensis. | 


6 Editor’s Preface. 


It is but just to Mr. Rogers to state that the books he 
possessed on Aeschylus were very few. Beside the Wellauer 
edition of 1827, he had Paley’s 2d edition of 1861 and the 
Teubner text (Dindorf’s) of 1873; for the separate plays, 
Bloomfield’s Choeph., 1827; Agam., 1832; Felton’s Agam., 
1847; Wecklein’s Prom., 1872; Enger-Gilbert’s Agam., 1874; 
Ritschl’s Sept. adv. Th., 1875; and Teuffel’s Pers., 1875. In 
addition to these, Wellauer’s and Dindorf’s Lexicons; Her- 
mann’s Elementa Doctrinae Metricae, 1817; and Linwood’s 
Greek Tragic Metres, 1855. This constituted his whole ap- 
paratus. 

Thus isolated, it was natural that many emendations oc- 
curred to him which were not, as he supposed, new. These 
of course—with the ‘Eureka’ which he would write over the 
especially happy ones—it is needless now to publish, but a 
list of them is added at the end. In noting these anticipations 
the editor has relied upon the invaluable edition of Aeschylus 
by Wecklein, 1885, with its Appendix of 1893. In the 
numbering of the verses he has followed the Teubner text 
(Weil’s) of 1889. 

It may be not amiss to warn the reader that Mr. Rogers 
evidently does not attach pre-eminent importance to the 
readings of the Codex Mediceus. His text therefore can be 
justified sometimes only by reference to a more complete 
critical apparatus than that furnished by Wecklein. 


L. L. Forman, Ph. ἢ. 


᾿ς ΒΑΙΠΊΜΟΒΕ, June, 1894. 


THE SUPPLIANTS. 





3 ἀπὸ προστομίων λεπτῶν βαθέος 
Νείλου. 
The contrast is between the deep river and its shallow 
outlets. λεπτοψαμάθων is not characteristic enough of 
the Nile for poetry. 


9 ἀλλ᾽ αὐτογενῆ ye φυλαξόμεναι 
4 3 4 7] 3 a b] 
γάμον Αἰγύπτου παίδων, ἀσεβῆ τ 
ὀνοταζόμεναι. 
αὐτογενής can only mean ‘consanguineous.’ φυλαξόμεναι 
is a fut. pte. denoting purpose. ἀσεβῆ) is ‘ impieties.’ 


14 κύδιστα χρεῶν ἐπέκρανεν 
Cf. 374 χρέος πᾶν ἐπικραίνεις. Paley’s sense of the read- 
ing κύδιστ᾽ ἀχέων, ‘best (i. 6. the least bad) of evils,’ is 
not maintainable. The comparisons he cites are not to the 
point. Nor does ἐπικραίνειν admit the sense of ‘ counsel’ 
which he attributes to it. 


38 πρίν ποτε λέκτρων, ὧν θέμις εἴργει," ᾿ ἫΝ 
σφετεριξαμένους πατραδέχφειαν i it 
κοίτην ἀϊκῶς ἐπεβήγαι. ain a Saree 

Cf. Eur. Med. 435 τᾶς ἀνάνδρου κοίτας ὀλέσασα ἀρῶ, 
Aesch. Pers. 543 λέκτρων εὐνάς. The loss of κοι- in 
κοίτην (probably mistaken for xa/) caused the corruption 
of ἀϊκῶς. [σφετεριξαμένους anticipated by Lincke. ] 


7 


’ "] 
> > 
πίφιδι τὰ θα 


8 The Suppliants. 


46 ἐξ ἐπυπνοίας 
Ζηνός: ἐφήψατ᾽ ἐπωνυμίᾳ T 
ἐπεκραίνετο μόρσιμος αἰών 
ἐφήψατο suits exactly the interjective character of the 
clause. 


53 γονέων ἐπιδείξω 
πιστὰ τεκμήρια κοὺκ ἀνόμοι- 
ay ἄελπτά περ ὄντα φανεῖται. 
‘And not discordant (as mythic accounts are apt to be), 
though surprising, will they seem.’ 


60 δοξάσει τινὰ κλάειν ὄπα τὰς Tnpelas 
μήτιδας, οἰκτρᾶς ἀλόχου 
κιρκηλάτου τ᾽ ἀηδόνος" 


64 πενθεῖ νέοικος ἐκτὸς ἠθέων 
‘Mourns estranged outside of its wonts.’ Confusion of 
ἐκτός, -oLKos, and οἶκτος. 


74 δειμαίνουσ᾽ adirovs τάσδε φυγὰς 
᾿Αερίας ἀπὸ γᾶς 
κοὔτις ἐστὶ κηδεμών. 
[ΤῊ emendation is independent of Weil’s ἀφίλου, as it is 
dated Dec., 84.] 


ΝΣ «ὕβθριν δ᾽ ἑτοίμως στυγοῦντες 
ὙΦ sete siay meNowre σύνδικοί γ᾽ ἐμοῖς. 
_.. Π}6. sense is strong. ‘I groan unfriended. In my flight 


τος theve dane protector. But ye gods, who.... , be ad- 


vocates to my side.’ [ἐμοί 9] 


82 ἔστι δὲ κἀκ πτολέμου τειρομένοις 
βωμὸς Αρης, φύγάσιν 
popa, δαιμόσιν σέβας. 


The Suppliants, 9 


‘To the distressed in war the altar is a Mars (i. 6. a suc- 
cour to the exhausted side), to fugitives is a stronghold, 
and to the divinities a thing venerated.’ 


85 ἐρρήθη δ᾽ ἔπος εὖ παναληθῶς, 

Διὸς ἵμερος οὐκ εὐθήρατος ἐτύχθη. 

πάντα στυφλά γ᾽ ἔθηκ᾽ ἐν 

σκότῳ, 
ἔθηκ᾽ ἐν, not ἔθηκεν, since the local dative according to 
Kiihner’s Gram. § 426, 1 is not found in Aeschylus [ Dated 
1880. Is independent therefore of Tucker’s εἴρηται λόγος. 
—Kihner can hardly be correct as regards Aeschylus’ 
avoidance of the local dative. See Prom. 706, Ag. 558, 
Cho. 87, 168, Th. 17.] 


97 βίαν δ᾽ οὔτιν᾽ ἐξοπλίζει 
τῇδε πόνων δαιμονίων" 
‘ But he displays therein no violence of demoniac toil.’ 


107 καὶ διάνοιαν μὲν ὥλεσεν 
κέντρον ἔχων ἄφυκτον, ἀμὰν δ᾽ 
ἀπάταν μεταγνούς. 
Conjecture: καὶ δι’ ἀνίαν μὲν ὄλλυται KTr. [ Wel- 
lauer’s reading of 100 (the verse of the strophe answering 
to 107) is ἥμενον ἄνω φρόνημά tras. | 


122 θύουσ᾽ ἐνάγεα τέλεα TerOpEV οὐ καλῶς 
ἐπέδραμον ὅθι θάνατος ann. 
Sense: Sacrifices in Egypt being unfavourable, I fled 
whither I might escape death.—évayns is possibly an 
epithet of aversion bestowed on Egyptian rites. Or is 
θύουσ᾽ ἐνάλια τέλεα to be read,—“‘ offering sacrifice on 
the sea-shore before leaving Egypt’? ὁπόθι, as ordi- 





10 The Suppliants, 


narily read, is not found in the tragedians. See Dindorf’s 
Lex. Aesch. 
162 ἀζήμιος δ᾽ οὐκ Ἰὼ 
ἔμηνε μνηστῆρ᾽ ἐκ θεῶν' 
κοννῷ δ᾽ ἄταν 
γαμετᾶς οὐρανονίκου 
‘Not without penalty did Io madden with love a suitor 
of the gods.’ 


168 καὶ τότ᾽ ad δικαίοις 
Ζεὺς ἐντεύξεται λόγοις 
δίκαιοι λόγοι of just censure. 


The repetition in antistrophe of vv. 162-166 is without — 
the authority of the MSS., and to be reprobated on every 
account, 


186 ἀλλ᾽ εἴτ᾽ ἀπήμων εἴτε κάρτα θερμόνους 

ὠμῇ ξὺν ὀργῇ τῶν δ᾽ ἐπόρνυται στόλος 
τεθυμμένος (Porson) denotes intense passion which darkens 
and confuses the mind; τεθηγμένος an acute attack of 
anger. Neither suits here. θερμόνους goes well with 
ὠμός and ὀργή, denoting the flush of anger upon supposed 
injury. A nominative is needed for ἐπόρνυται, hence 
στόλος. τῶνδε are the ἀρχηγέται. [τῶνδε and στόλος 
were anticipated by Todt. | 


198 τὸ μὴ μάταιον & ἐς μέτωπα σωφρόνων 
ἴτω προσώπων 
—‘to the metopes of your modest face.’ 


243 μόνον τόδ᾽ Ἑλλὰς χθὼν συνείσεται τάχα. 
‘This feature only will the Grecian land readily recognise 
as its own.’ Aesch. uses τάχα with εἴσομαι five times, 
with πεύσει twice, with γνώσει once. See Dindorft’s Lex. 


The Suppliants. II 


247 ἐγὼ δὲ πρός σε πότερον ὡς ἔτην λέγω 
τηροῦντα θ᾽ ‘Eppod ῥάβδον, ἢ πόλεως ἀγόν; 
Sense: Do I address you as ἃ citizen and one keeping the 
staff of Mercury (i. e. as a mere herald), or—? 


250 τοῦ γηγενοῦς γάρ εἰμ᾽ ἐγὼ Παλαίχθονος 
ives Πελασγός: τοῦ δέ, γῆς ἀρχηγέτου, 
ἐμοῦ τ᾿ ἄνακτος εὐλόγως ἐπώνυμον 
‘For of the earthborn Palaichthon I am the son Pelasgos. 
And of him the Founder and of me the King, the epony- 
mous Pelasgic people—.’ [An apparently earlier emen- 
dation with note is the following : 


TOD γηγενοῦς γάρ ci ἐγὼ παλαΐίχθονος 

ivis Πελασγοῦ τῆσδε γῆς ἀρχηγέτου" ΄ 

ἐφ᾽ οὗ δ᾽ ἄνακτος (vel. ἀφ᾽ οὗ δ᾽) 
ἐμοῦ δ᾽ ἄνακτος must be corrupt. How could a yet living 
king be the eponymous founder (not of a small city but) 
of a wide-spread state? παλαίχθων is an epithet, not a 
proper name. |: 


254 καὶ πᾶσαν aiav ἧς δι᾿ ἀγροὺς ἔρχεται 
“ 
Στρυμών, τόπον δύνοντος ἡλίου, κρατῶ. 


265 τὰ δὴ παλαιῶν αἱμάτων μιάσμασιν 

χρανθεῖσ᾽ ἀνῆκε ya, ἀμύνει δ᾽ αὔτ᾽ ἑκὰς 

δράκονθ᾽ ὅμαυλον, δυσμενῆ ξυνοικίαν. 
Sense: (He purges the land of hostile beasts) which 
the earth has brought forth, and keeps afar the social 
dragon.—The clause τὰ δή. . . . ἀνῆκε γαῖα 1s 
parenthetic and explanatory. Dragons men generally 
imagined to live singly; the social dragon was there- 
fore a terror. 


I2 The Suppliants. 


294 4 γ᾽, ὡς μὲν ἴστε, καὶ φάτις πολλὴ κρατεῖ 
[This and the two preceding verses are assigned in Wel- 
lauer’s text to the chorus. | 


319 τὸ πρὶν σαφὴς νῦν ὄνομα τοῦτό μοι φράσον. 
‘Hitherto clear in your statements, do you now tell me 
your father’s name.’ 


329 ἐπεὶ τίς ηὔχει τήνδ᾽ ἀνελπίστῳ φυγῇ 
κέλσειν ἐς ΓΑργος 
‘Since who thought that this one (I) in unexpected flight—’ 


351 ἠλιβάτοισιν: ἀλκᾷ πίσυνος μέμυκα 
φράζουσα βοτῆρι μόχθους. 
A detailed simile here from the suppliants is not appro- 
priate, while a return to their own pressing case, with 
metaphor and asyndeton, is eminently so. ‘Trusting to 
your help I low my troubles’—or perhaps the perfect 
tense has its full force, referring to the tale just told. 


385 μένει τοὺς Ζηνὸς εἰκότως κότος 
δυσπαραθέλκτους παθόντος οἴκτοις 


396 κρῖνε, σέβας, τὸ πρὸς θεῶν. 


For the voc. σέβας, οἵ, Cho. 156, Prom. 1091. 


405 τί τῶνδ᾽ ἐξ ἴσου ῥεπόμενον ; μεταλ- 
γεῖς τὸ δίκαιον ἔρξαι ; 

The chorus are answering the king’s declaration in v. 397 
that the case is a difficult one to decide. Their answer 
runs (402-406): Zeus, while equally related to both parties, 
regards this matter with inclination to our side, justly as- 
signing the wrong to the wicked, the right to the just. 
What equality is there in the case? Where is there a 
κρῖμα οὐκ evxpetrov? Your hesitancy is not about the 
right, but about doing it. 


The Suppliants. 13 


488 δεῦρο δ᾽ ἐξοκέλλομαι ΒΒ! ay dug” 
ἢ τοῖσιν ἢ τοῖς πόλεμον αἴρεσθαι μέγαν. - 
πάρεστ᾽ ἀνάγκη, καὶ γεγόμφωται σκάφος, 
στρέβλαισι ναυτικαῖσιν ὡς προσηγμένον. 

“Τὰ driven to this strand, 
With these or those to make great battle. 
Necessity surrounds ; and thus the ship 
Is wedged, as on the ways ’t were fastened.’ 

As the text is commonly punctuated, δεῦρο is without 

sense. The frequency of the phrase πᾶσ᾽ ἀνάγκη caused 

the disappearance of the true reading. σκάφος is the ship 

of state, or the king himself. Finally, what Greek would 


have separated γεγόμφωται and σκάφος ! 


447 σένοιτο μύθου μῦθος ἂν θελκτήριος 
ἄλγει τε θυμοῦ κάρτα κινητήριος. 
—‘and for distress of soul strongly expulsive.’ [κινητή- 
ρίος proposed. by Schwerdt. ] 


452 ἢ κάρτα νείκους τῶν δ᾽ ἐγὼ παροίχομαι. 
τῶνδε refers to both suppliants and claimants. παροίχομαι 
is ‘I stand aside from.’ The χρηστήρια πολλά (v. 450), 
if offered at all, must be provided by himself or the city, 
as the suppliants could hardly have them. Hence in part 
his decision: I decline positively the contention of these 
parties. [Upon this the suppliants threaten to hang them- 
selves, thereby finally effecting a reversal of the king’s 
judgment. But if Paley’s text and interpretation of v. 
452 were correct, by which apparently the king is already 
on the point of yielding, not threats but further and more 
insistent entreaty would follow. ] 


491 αἰδοῖον εὔτροπόν τε πρόξενον λαβεῖν. 


14 The Suppliants, 


494 βωμοὺς προνάους καὶ πολυστίχους ἕδρας 
‘ Many-ranked seats.’ 


Interpretation of v. 514 ἀεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάκτων ἐστὶ Seip’ ἐξαί- 
σιον : δεῖμα is ‘distrust,’ ἀνάκτων an objective genitive. 


5380 τὰν weravoluyov ναῦν. 
Cf. ἑκατόξυγος, τριακοντάζυγος, πολύξυγος. Termi- 
nation in - ζυξ has another sense ; cf. μονό-, δί-, τρί-ζυξ. 
—Conjecture: σὺν μέλανι ζυγίτῃ. 


ὅ94 νέωσον εὔφρον᾽ αἶνον, 
γονεῦ πολυμνῆστορ, ἔφαπτορ ‘ods, 
δι ἃς κτλ. 
Conject.: νέωσον εὔφρον᾽ αἶνον γονῇ, πολυμνῆστορ κτλ. 


538 παλαιὸν δ᾽ εἰς tyvos μετέσταν στρ. β' 
\ 

ματέρος ἀνθονόμου, στενωπὸν 

n \ 
λειμῶνα Bovyirov, ἔνθεν “Io 

/ 
οἶστρον ἐρεσσόμενον 
4 

φεύγει κτλ. 


547 ἰάπτει Bao’ ὁδὸν δι’ αἴας ἀντ. β' 
μηλοβότου Φρυγίας διαμπάξ' 
περᾷ δὲ Τεύθραντος ἄστυ Μυσῶν 
Λύδια ποτὶ γύαλα 
καὶ δι’ ὅρων Κιλίκων 
: Παμφύλων τε διορνυμένα 
τοὺς ποταμοὺς ἀενάους 
καὶ βαθύπλουτον χθόν᾽, ἐς αὐ- 
τὰν ᾿Αφροδίτας πολύπυρον αἶαν. 
ἱκνεῖται δ᾽ εἶτα κνωμένα βέλει στρ. γ᾽ 
βουκόλου κτλ. 


The Suppliants. 15 


From v. 549 : ‘She passes Teuthras’ Mysian city to Lydian 
vales, and o’er Cilician and Pamphylian boundaries, 
whirled through their constant rivers and deep soil, e’en 
to Venus’ wheaten land (Syria). And then she reaches 
Egypt, ete.’ 


559 λειμῶνα χιονόβοσκον, ὅντ᾽ ἐπέρχεται 
τυφούμενον 
ὕδωρ τὸ Νείλου 
τυφούμενον ‘swollen, muddy.’ 
565 Bpotol δ᾽ of yas τότ᾽ ἦσαν ἔννομοι 
χλωρῷ δείματι θυμὸν. 
ἠλῶντ᾽, ὄψιν ἀήθη κτλ. 


574 ᾿ Ζεὺς αἰῶνος κρέων ἐπέστη 

καὶ νῦν ἥδε νόσος πρὸς 

βίαν ἀπημάντῳ σθένει 

καὶ θείαις ἐπιπνοίαις 
4 / 3 > 

παύεται, δακρύων δ᾽ ἀπο- 
7 7 > ,ὔ 

στάζει πένθιμος αἰδώς. 

ἐπέστη used of sudden appearances. See the lexicons, 


592 σὺ yap πατὴρ φυτουργὸς αὐτόχειρ ἄναξ 
γένους παλαιόφρων μέγας 
τέκτων, τὸ πᾶν μηχανορραφὴς Ζεύς. 
δ Ae \ 2 - x / 
ὑπ᾽ ἀρχὰς δ᾽ οὗ τις ἂν θοάξων 
τὸ μεῖον κρεισσόνων κρατύνοι" 
og , DY Ψ , 7 
εἰ δέ τις ἄνωθεν ἥμενον σέβει, κάτω 
πάρεστιν ἔργον ὡς ἔπος 
σπεύσων τιν᾽ ὡς δούλιος φέρει φρήν. 
From v. 595: ‘ Under whose protection anyone retreat- 
ing, though the weaker side, may govern the stronger. 


16 The Suppliants. 


But if one worship him seated on high, below he is present 
at once to expedite one’s deed and word, as the subservient 
mind desires.’—For σπεύδειν with personal object, see 
Soph. Aj. 1223 ἔσπευσα τὸν στρατηλάτην ᾿Αγαμέμνονα. 
—Conject.: πάρεστ᾽ ὅ δ᾽ ἔργον ὡς ἔπος. 


In v. 606 ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἂν ἡβήσαιμι γηραιᾷ φρενί, the ὡς 
is proper, forming with διχορρόπως of the preceding v. ἃ 
comparative proposition. See Kiihn. Gram. §§ 583 and 
586, 5. The sense is: ‘they decided od διχορρόπως but 
in such manner as I could feel young in my old heart,’ 
not ‘so as to gladden me.’ 


617 μέγαν, πρόφρονος ὡς μήποτ᾽ εἰσόπιν χρόνου 
πόλιν παχῦναι 
‘Great the anger of Zeus, as never willing thereafter to 
fatten (make rich) the city.’ 


633 μήποτε Tapa πόλιν τάνδε Πελασγίαν 
τὸν ἄχορον βοὰν κτίσαι μάχλον "Ἀρη 
The chorus prays that the city may be free from assault, 
not from destruction. 


646 Δῖον ἐπιδόμενοι πράκτορ᾽ ἐπίσκοπον 
δυσπολέμητον, εἴ τις ἂν δόμος ἔχοι 
. ὑπ᾽ ὀρόφων μιαίνοντα' βαρὺς δ᾽ ἐφίζξει. 
‘ Regarding Zeus as an inflexible avenger whenever a house 
has beneath its roof polluting things.’—ddyos is here for 
the city. For εἰ with the opt. and ἄν, see Kiihn. Gram., 
§ 577, 1. ἐφίζειν used of a hostile force encamped or 
. ambushed in a position of observation and attack. Con- 
ject.: εἴ rev’ ἂν δόμος ἔχοι, with μιαίνοντα mase. sing. 
in agreement. [ὑπ᾽ ὀρόφων anticipated by Stanley. | 


The Suppliants. 17 


691 ποιονόμα δὲ πρόβατα πολύγονα τελέθοι 
From πρόβατα came the Med. corruption βρότατοσ, from 
ποιονόμα sprang πρόνομα which is a vox nihil. [ποιο- 
νόμα anticipated by Hartung. | 


694 εὔφημον δ᾽ ἐπιβώντων 
Μούσαις θεαῖς ἀοιδοί: 


706 δαφοίνοις βουθύτοισι τιμαῖς. 

Why should the θεοὶ ἐγχώριοι be honored with Apollo’s 
laurel, according to the common reading δαφνηφόροις ? 
As for δαφνοφόροις, it may be noted that forms in δαφνο- 
instead of δαφνη- all seem late. The strophe 698-700 
should read, as corrected by various scholars : 

φυλάσσοι τιμίοισι τιμὰς 

τὸ δήμιον: τὴν πόλιν κρατύνοι 

προμαθεύς, κοινόμητις ἀρχά' 


718 ἄγαν καλῶς κλύουσά η᾽ ὡς ἂν εὐφιλής. 
‘Listening to the helm as if fond of 1{.᾿---Οοπ]θοῦ. : ὡς ἂν 
εἰ φίλη, or ὡς ἂν ἢ φίλη, or ὡς ἄν οἱ φίλου. 


745 πολλοὶ μελαγχίμῳ σὺν στρατῷ. 


765 οὐδὲ πεισμάτων σωτηρία" 
ἐς γῆν δ᾽ ἐνεγκεῖν οὐδ᾽ ἐν ἀγκυρουχίαις 
θαρσοῦσι ναῶν ποιμένες παραυτίκα, 
ἄλλως τε καὶ μολόντες ἀλίμενον χθόνα, 
ὡς ἕνεκ᾽ ἀποστείχοντος ἡλίου φιλεῖ 
ὠδῖνα τίκτειν νὺξ κυβερνήτῃ code. 
From ν. 764: ‘Neither is the setting out of a fleet a quick 
matter, nor its anchoring, nor the securing it by cables. 
But to come to land, even when anchored, skippers are in 
no haste, especially when they have come to a harborless 
2 


18 The Suppliants. 


shore ; since by reason of darkness the night etc.’-—-Con- 
ject.: τίς δ᾽ οὐκ ἀποστείχοντος ... . νύξ ‘what night 
does not ete.?’ [For Aeschylus’ avoidance of dactyls in 
the first foot of iambic trimeter, see Wecklein Prom. 6. | 


(775 . . . . γέρονθ᾽, ἡβῶντα δ᾽ εὐγλώσσῳ φρενί re- 
minds one of Milton’s ‘old man eloquent.’) 


719 μέλας γενοίμαν καπνὸς στρ. 
νέφεσσι γειτονῶν Διός, 
τὸ πᾶν δ᾽ ἄφαντος. 
ἀμπτᾶσ᾽ ὡς ἀήσυρος 
κόνις ἄτερθε πτερύγων ὀλοίμαν. 

Cf. the antistr. 

787 θέλοιμι δ᾽ ἂν μορσίμου ἀντ. 
βρόχου τυχεῖν ἐν σαργάναις, 
πρὶν ἄνδρ᾽ ἀπευκτὸν 
τῷδ᾽ ἐγχριμφθῆναι χεροῖν" κτλ. 

806 τίνα δ᾽ ἄμομφον ἔτι πόρον 
τέμνομεν γάμου λυτῆρα; 

820 ὅδε με μάρπτει νάϊός γ᾽, ἀΐεις ; 

Troch. and Cret. 


τί σάν, προμᾶτορ, TTAK ἀμνημονεῖς ; 
Iamb. and Cret. 


αὖθι κἄκικυς av Cret. 
δάϊον βοὰν ἀμφαίνω. Cret. and Dochm. 
830 ὅρα τάδε φροίμια, mpokeve, πόνων 
See note. 
βιαίων ἐμῶν. ἠὲ ἠέ. Dochm. 
βαῖνε φυγάδος πρὸς ἀλκάν: Cret. 
βλοσυρόφρων χλιδᾷ Dochm. 


δυσφόρως vdios κἀν γᾷ. Cret. 


The Suppliants. 19 


835 ἄναξ προτάσσου. 

‘This pirate seizes me. Dost hear? Why, ancestress, un- 
mindful of thy hare? Again, though weak, again I raise 
my wretched voice. See these things, prefaces—.’—If we 
read in v. 830 ὅρα φροίμια τάδε, πρόξενε, πόνων, we have 
two dochmiacs.' [The dochmiac in ν. 829 (.----| -- -- is 
rare in Aeschylus. See Gleditsch, Metrik der Griechen 
und Rémer, ὃ 102 (Iwan Miiller’s Handbuch, vol. IT). 
Despite Enger’s protest in Philologus XII, p. 457, the 
second dochmiac proposed for v. 830 (-—v» |» —) still has 
its defenders, among others Christ, Metrik, p. 428. | 


842 KH. σοῦσθε, cota ὀλόμεναι μόλωμεν ἐπ᾽ 
ἀμίδα. 
ΧΟ. εἴθ᾽ ἀνὰ ποχλυρόθιον στρ. 
ἁλμήεντα πόρον 
845 δεσποσίῳ ξὺν ὕβρει 
γομφοδέτῳ τε δόρει διώλου. 
δαίμων τις ὡς ἐπ᾽ ἀμίδ᾽ ὧν 
εἰς ὕδωρ UMTLOL ἄν ποτε. 
ΚΗ. κελεύω βοᾶς μεθέσθαι. 
850 lay’ ἀράν, ppevita. 
XO. ἰοὺ iov. KH. ὠὴ ὠή. 
reid ἕδρανον, Ki’ és δόρυ, 
ἀτίετ᾽ ἂμ πόλιν ov σέβου. 
V. 847: ‘Though like a divinity on board of the amis, 
you may yet be turned over in the water.’—o7 a call to 


1 After many hours’ or days’ endeavor to restore these lines, the 
thought struck me that we had here membra disiecta, I then set down 
the aptest words, turned to my Aeschylean Lexicon and found with 
delight every word there. Not till then did I think of the metres, and 
to my astonishment they seemed perfect. This was the work of two 
or three minutes. - I could not have composed the lines in an hour. 


20 The Suppliants. 


the sluggish. ἂμ πόλιν the Egyptian state. [For the 
rarity if not entire absence in Tragedy of such an elision 
as that in ἀμίδι (v. 847), see Kihn. Gram. ὃ 53, 5, C, 
and Jebb. Oed. Col. 1436, Appendix. Mr. Rogers has 
given no explanation of dpevira or of v. 853. | 
854 XO. μήποτε πάλιν ἴδοιμ᾽ ἀντ. 

ἀλφεσίβοιον ὕδωρ 

ἔνθεν δεξαμένα 

ζώφυτον αἷμα βροτοῖσι θάλλει 

ἡ γαῖ᾽ ἀεὶ βαθύγεως. 

βάθρ᾽ ἔα, βάθρ᾽ ἔα, ὦ γέρον. 

860 KH. σὺ δὴ ναὶ ναὶ βάσει 
| τάχα θέλεος ἀθέλεος. 

βόα βόα πολλά. φροῦδα 

Ba? ἀνάβαθι, μὴ πάθῃς 

ὀλομένα παλάμας ἐμάς. 
Sense from v. 854: ‘ May I never see the Nile, whence 
receiving its life-blood that ever-rich soil blooms for 
mortals.’ The two chief facts of Egypt: the life-blood 
of the Nile, the constant renewal of the soil.—For μὴ 
πάθῃς παλάμας, cf. Soph. Phil. 1206 péEns παλάμαν. 


874 Bapw οὐκ ὑπερθορεῖ, 
εἰ καὶ βοᾷ πικρότερα γ᾽ οἰμώζοις ὅμως. 
In the antistr. v. 884 read ὁλκὴ γὰρ αὕτη πλόκαμον 
οὐδάμ᾽ ἅξζεται. [αὕτη already suggested by Todt. ] 


877 λύμας σὰς σὺ πρὸ γᾶς ὑλάσκεις" 
περιχριμπτὰ BeBpalers ὅσ᾽ ἐρωτᾷς" ὁ μέγας 
Νεῖλος ὑβρίζοντ᾽ ἀποτρέ- 
ψείεν ἄϊστον ὕβριν. 
‘You howl your contumelies abroad. With gnash of teeth 


The Suppliants. 21 


you chatter (like a grasshopper) whatsoever you demand 
of us.’ 


885 οἵ of στρ. 
πάτερ, βρέτας γ᾽ ἐρύσεται" 
ἄραχνος ὡς βάδην 
ἁνὴρ θορεῖ μ᾽ ἐλᾶν. 
ὀτοτοτοῖ, 
890 μ᾽ ἄγει, μ᾽ ἄγει: βίαν 
φοβερὰν ἀπότρεπε, 
ὦ βουγενὲς παῖ Ζηνός. 
‘Father, even the image is seized. Spider-like step by 
step this man springs to snatch me. He drags me, he 
drags me. Avert this fearful violence, O oxborn son of 
Zeus (Epaphus).’—pardadyer in Med., v. 896 (ΞΞ- μάλα 
δ᾽ ἄγει) is a stage-direction and not genuine. 


895 μαιμᾷ πέλας δίπους ὄφις ἀντ. 
ἔχιδνα δ᾽ ὡς μετα- 
πτοιοῦσαν ἐμὲ δάκνει. 
[Mr. Rogers has cited nothing in Tragedy to support 
ἐρύσεται (v. 886), nothing in all Greek for θορεῖ (v. 
888); nor does he show how his reading of v. 892 may 
be reconciled with the response of the herald in v. 893. ] 


938 ἐν χρόνῳ μαθὼν 
ἔσει σύ γ᾽ αὐτὸς χοὶ ξυνέμποροι σέθεν. 
For pte. with εἶναι, see Kiihn. Gram., ὃ 353, Anm. 3. 


977 BA. τάσσεσθε φίλας δμωΐδας οὕτως 
‘Arrange for yourselves your good maids in such way 
as—.’ The φίλαι Suwides are the servants given by the 
king and assigned by their father to each as dowry. [An- 
ticipated by Geel. ] 


22 The Suppliants. 


983 καί pov τὰ μὲν πραχθέντα πρὸς τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς 
φίλως, πικρῶς δ᾽ ἤκουσαν αὐτανεψίους" 


998 τέρειν᾽ ὀπώρα δ᾽ εὐφύλακτος οὐδαμῶς. 

θῆρες δὲ κηραίνουσι καὶ βροτοί γε μήν" 

καὶ κνώδαλα πτεροῦντα καὶ πεδοστιβῆ 

καρπώματι στάζοντι κείρουσιν Κύπριν' 

χἄλωρα κωλύουσι προσμένειν θέρος. 
Sense: ‘But the tender fruitage is never easily guarded. 
For beasts and men alike destroy ; and winged and crawl- 
ing creatures alike shear off the beauty of the softening 
fruit and forbid their spoils (what they have punctured 
and defaced) to await the summer ripening.—For the 
plural κείρουσι, see Καὶ ἅδη. Gram., §365a)andb). [προσ- 
μένειν θέρος anticipated by Paley (1883). ] 


1007 πολὺς δὲ πόντος ὧν ἐκληρώθη πέρι. 
‘With respect to which (i. 6. to the avoidance of which) 
much toil and travel was chosen.’ According to Dindorf’s 
Lexicon, Aeschylus thus postpones περί with the genitive 
thirteen times in sixteen. 


1018 tre μὰν ἀστυάνακτας 
μάκαρας θεοὺς γεραρῶντες 


1089 . πάρεισιν Πόθος, ᾧ τ᾿ οὐ- 

δὲν ἄπαρνος τελέθει, θέλ- 

κτρα τε ἸΠειθοῦς. 
‘Desire is at her (Venus’) side, to whom she refuses 
nothing, and the charms of Persuasion.’—6éAx«Tpa Πειθοῦς 
Ξε! Πειθώ, with which cf. τρίβοι τ᾽ ἐρώτων at the end of 
the strophe. The common reading θέλκτορι ἸΠειθοῖ is 
objectionable because following so closely μετάκοινοι in 
the same case with dita ματρί. Besides, no such relative 


The Persians. 23 


construction as πάρεισιν ἸΤόθος ἃ τ᾽ οὐδὲν ἄπαρνον τελέθει 
θέλκτορι ἸΠειθοῖ is to be found in Aesch., nor is there suf- 
ficient authority for any but an active sense of ἄπαρνος. 


1066 εὖ 
χειρὶ παιωνίᾳ κατασχέθων, 
εὐμενῆ βίον κτίσας. 
‘ Restoring to her a reasonable life. βέος Ξεε modus υἱυοηαϊ, 
κτίζω is apparently the vow propria. Cf. Cho. 1060, 
Eum. 17. | 





THE PERSIANS. 





12 πᾶσα yap ἰσχὺς ᾿Ασιατογενὴς 
v 4 Piow of 
ὥχωκε' κύων τ᾽ ἄνδρα Baile. 
‘The dog whines for his master.’ 


Conject. 34: Σουσισκάνης ἐπὶ γᾶς ταγῶν Αἰγυ- 
πτογενής. Parallelism with the succeeding names requires 
here mention of Sousiskanes’ office. 


102 θεόθεν yap: τάδε Μοῖρ᾽ 
ἐκράτησεν τὸ παλαιόν 
‘For so it is divinely fixed. These things Fate long ago 
determined.’— rade lost -δὲ and received xa- in com- 
pensation. 


108 ἔμαθον δ᾽ εὐρὺ πόρευ - 
μα θαλάσσας πολιαι- 
a 4 / 
νομένας πνεύματι λάβρῳ 
ἐσορᾶν πόντιον ἄλσος 
By the apposition of πόρευμα, πόντιον ἄλσος becomes 
less harsh. 


24 The Persians. 


144 πῶς ἄρα πράσσει Ἐέρξης βασιλεὺς 
Δαρειογενὴς 
πατρόθεν τε νέμων γένος ἡμέτερον' 
‘And from his sire holding sway over—.’ 


162 οὐδαμῶς ἐμαυτῇ στᾶσ᾽ ἀδείμαντος, φίλοι 


Interpretation of 163-164: 

μὴ μέγας πλοῦτος Kovicas οὗδας ἀντρέψη ποδὶ 

ὄλβον, ὃν Δαρεῖος ἦρεν οὐκ ἄνευ θεῶν τινος. 
These lines need no change. The metaphor is taken from 
the palaestra, ὄλβος ‘national prosperity,’ πλοῦτος ‘ wealth 
and associated luxury,’ xovicas ovdas ‘dusting over the 
floor of the palaestra’ (Plutus as the challenging party 
being eager for the contest), ἀνατρέπειν ‘to overthrow in 
wrestling.’—Sense: ‘ Lest wealth overmatch the national 
prosperity.’ The underlying view is that wealth is de- 
structive of the well-being of the state. 


165 ταῦτά μοι διπλῆ μέριμνα φόρτος ὥς τις ἐν 
φρεσίν 


In v. 166 χρημάτων ἀνάνδρων = riches not possessed 
by brave men to defend their ownership. In 168 ἀμεμφής 
is ‘desirable,’ the sense being: Riches national, like that 
of a family, are desirable, but need a guardian eye. ὀφθαλ- 
μός surely does not mean here Xerxes, as Teuffel thinks. 


193 av ἡνίαις ὡς εἶχεν εὔαρκτον στόμα 
ὡς is causal. , ? 


Conject. 214: σωθεὶς δ᾽ ὁμοίως τῆσδε κοίρανος 
χθονός. With κοίρανος, γένουτ᾽ ἄν supplied from ν. 212 
will satisfy Dindorf’s “futurum aliquod requiritur, non 
praesens.”” See his Lex. 





The Persians. 25 


275 ἁλίδονα σώματα πολυβαφῆ 

κατθανόντα λέγεις φέρεσθαί 

πως ἀκταῖς διπλάκεσσιν. 
δίπλαξ is ‘double.’ The chorus refers to and repeats the 
herald’s message of v. 273.—Conject.: πλαγκτοῖς ἐπὶ 
πλακέσσιν, with the sense that the deep-sunken bodies 
(σώματα πολυβαφῆ) after swelling and rising to the 
surface had rested on the low flats often covered with 
water—‘the weltering sands.’ Or is it παγκοίνοισι 
πλακέσσιν, of Hades? Cf. Soph. oO. Ο. 1564 τὰν παγ- 


κευθῆ κάτω νεκρῶν πλάκα. 


Conject. 286: στυγναὶ δ᾽ ᾿Αθᾶναι δέος, the chorus 
again repeating the herald’s thought and construction in 
v. 284 ἔχθος ὄνομα Σαλαμῖνος. With δέος for δῴοις, 
the Med. reading of the strophe may stand. 


Conject. 310: νικώμενοι κυροῦσιν ἰσχυρὰν χθόνα. 


512 Φερεσσεύης τρίτος 
φερνοῦχος, οἵδε ναὸς ἐκ μιᾶς πέσος. 
φερνοῦχος the governor of a place assigned as dower 

(φερνή) to the queen. 


321 ὅ τ᾽ ἐσθλὸς ᾿Αριομᾶρ ὁ Σάρδεσιν 
πένθος παρασχών 
[Mr. Rogers has furnished no accent for ᾿Αρίομαρ; nor 
does he alter Wellauer’s Καριόμαρδος in ν. 967.] | 


Conject. 329: τοιῶνδ᾽ ἀρίστων viv ὑπεμνήσθην Trépe 


388 πρῶτον μὲν ἤχει κέλαδος λλήνων πάρα" 
μολπῇ δ᾽ ἀνευφήμησαν, ὄρθιον θ᾽ ἅμα 
ἀντηλάλαξε νησιώτιδος πέτρας 
ἠχώ' 


26 The Persians. 


From ν. 386: ‘But with morning there sounded a shout 
from the side of the Greeks ; in song they raised it, and 
straightway—.’ The song (μολπή) so striking to the 
Persian was the paean. With ἀνευφημέω cf. ἀναβάλλομαι 
‘to strike up a tune.’ I find that Wecklein has antici- 
pated the emendation of ἤχει. 


443 ὅστις τ᾽ ἄνακτι πιστὸς ἐν πρώτοις ἀεί 
πίστιν ἐν πρώτοις, the common reading, is extremely 
awkward. 


532. ὦ Zed βασιλεῦ, ws viv Περσῶν 
ὡς dropped by transcribers to avoid hiatus. Note the 
frequent use of exclamatory ὡς in this play: 251, 260, 
285, 472, 515, 519, 845, 911. 


Conject. 574: τεῖνε δὲ δυσβαὕὔκτοις | βοαῖσιν 
τάλαιναν αὐδάν, referring to and in explanation of ὀᾶ, 
én. This reference by the chorus to its own words or 
actions is not infrequent in Tragedy, e. g. Cho. 423. 


Interpretation of v. 600: πάντα δειμαίνειν φιλεῖ. 
‘All things are wont to fear,’ i. e. man and all his sur- 
roundings. As he is full of fear, so all things take the 
color of his mind. We might render: ‘ Fear is every- 
where.’—The same πάντα goes with πεποιθέναι in 601. 


633 ἢ ῥ᾽ ἀΐει μου μακαρί- 
‘Tas ἰσοδαίμων βασιλεὺς 
βαρβάρων σαφηνῆ 
ἱέντος τὰ παναίολ᾽ αἰ- 
avn δύσθροα βάγματα; 
βαρβάρων explains τά in the following verse, and enables 
us to read in the antistrophe with the Med. 
641 δαίμονα μεγαλαυχῆ. 


The Persians. 27 


μεγαυχῆ, while not without precedent, is unlikely. 


Conject. 648 : ἢ φίλος ἡμῖν φίλος ὄχθος. The read- 
ing 7 φίλος ἀνήρ anticipates and renders pointless the 
following φίλα yap κέκευθεν ἤθη. 


650 , aveins, ᾿Αϊδωνεύς, στρ. 
δαίμονα δῖον ἄνακτα Δαρειάν. 
655 θεομήστωρ δ᾽ ἀντ. 


ἔσκεν, ἐπεὶ στρατὸν εὖ ποδήγηκεν. 
ποδηγέω ap. Plato. Confusion easy between ὁδόω and 
modnyéw. Note the attempted correction of Med.?: εὖ 
ἐποδώκει. [δαίμονα anticipated by F. W. Newman. | 


675 τί τάδε δυνάτ᾽ ἀδύνατα ; 

περὶ τὰ σὰ διδύμᾳ 

δι’ ἄνοιαν ἁμαρτίᾳ 

πάντα γᾷ τᾷδ᾽ 

ἐξέφθινθ.᾽ αἱ τρίσκαλμοι 

νᾶες ἄναες ἄναες. 
‘Why are the strong (become) weak?’ περὶ τὰ σά, as 
complimentary to Darius, must be correct. [Mr. Rogers 
has not here marked what were his own corrections. But 
most of it proves to have been anticipated. | 


708 yiyverat θνητοῖσι μάσσον, ἢν Bios ταθῇ 
πρόσω. 


Conject. 860 : ὑπαντιάζειν παιδί πως πειράσομαι. 


857 πρῶτα μὲν εὐδοκίμους στρατιὰς ἀπέ- 
φαινε, μαθὼν δὲ νομίσματα πύργινα : 
πάντ᾽ ἐπεύθυνεν. 

/ / - 
νόστους δ᾽ ἐκ πολέμων ἀπόνους ἀπαθεῖς 
> θ \ 4 , eR ᾿ 
εὐθὺς εὖ πράσσοντας ay ἐς οἴκους. 


28 . The Persians. 


The subject of the whole is Darius, already introduced 
in the strophe ν. 854 εὖθ ὁ γηραιὸς... Δαρεῖος ἄρχε 
χώρας. It is claimed for him 1) that he sent forth ex- 
peditions in the best manner, 2) that he stayed with them 
conducting all the erections, &c. of assault, 3) that he 
brought them safely back by direct routes to their places 
of abode, where in the meantime all had been properly 
administered.—evdOuvs sufficiently separates the adjectives 
joined with νόστους from εὖ πράσσοντας, which belongs 
to οἴκους. This is important, since ed πράσσοντας as an 
additional epithet to ἀπόνους and ἀπαθεῖς is out of place. 
For ἠδέ of the MSS. in ν. 855, see the note infra on 
Kum. 414. 


864 ὅσσας δ᾽ εἷλε πόλεις πόρον ov δια- στρ. 
βὰς Αλυος ποταμοῦ ToT, 
οὐδ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ἑστίας συθείς κτλ. 
871 al κατὰ χέρσον é- ἀντ. 
ληλαμέναι περ ἀπ᾿ ἔργων 
τοῦδ᾽ ἄνακτος ἄϊον. 
‘ However far removed inland from his operations, heard 
of (or obeyed) this king.’ For ἀπελαύνομαι ‘to be re- 
moved or excluded from,’ see Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon. 


926 πάνυ γάρ, φεῦ, ὡς 
μυριὰς ἀνδρῶν ἐξέφθινται" 
‘How have the Ten Thousand wholly perished!’ The 
transition from narration to exclamation relieves the tau- 
tology. The point of the clause is, not that 10,000 men 
had perished, but that the corps d’ élite—the brave reserve 
corps (κεδνᾶς ἀλκᾶς of the following verse)—had been 
wholly cut off. So remarkable a word as φύστις of the 
MSS., and that too in the Persae, could not have escaped 


The Persians. — 29 


the lexicographers. Further, the senses assigned to it 
seem to defeat the true intent of the poet. 


949 γενεὼν yap ἀπηύρα 
Ἰάνων ναύφρακτος "Ἄρης κτλ. 


973 ἰὼ ἰώ μοι, στρ. 
τὰς ὠγυγίους 
στυγνὰς κατιδόντες ᾿Αθάνας 
/ , Mee" 4 
πάντες ἐνὶ πιτύλῳ 
eh df, 
Ὁ > / > > \ / 
ὡς ἀσπαίρουσ᾽ ἐπὶ χέρσῳ. 
987 ἴυγγά μοι δῆτ᾽ ἀντ. 
ἀγαθῶν ἑτάρων 
ς / J SSD. Ὁ, 
ὑπομιμνήσκεις, τάδ᾽ ἄλαστα 
στυγνὰ πρόκακα λέγων 
βοᾷ βοᾷ 
μοι μελέων ἔνδοθεν ἧτορ. 
ἐπὶ χέρσῳ instead of χέρσῳ, as the locative dat. is not 
used by Aesch. [ Yet see above on Suppl. 85.] τλάμονες 
is irreptitious. 


~- 


1002 βεβᾶσι γάρ τοι προαιρετοὶ στρατοῦ, στρ. 
βεβᾶσί τοι νώνυμοι. 
>\ »>/ >\ pI 
ἰὴ in, ἰὼ ἰώ, 
7\ >7 / 
ἰὼ ἰώ, δαίμονες 
4 SS ae \ 
ἔθεντ᾽ ἄελπτον κακὸν 
διαπρέπον: οἵαν δέδορκας ἄταν. 
1007 πεπλήγμεθ, οἷαι δ' ἐναντίαι τύχαι κτλ. ἀντ. 


1020 τόνδ᾽ ἔδετ᾽ οἰστοδέγμονα 
The sense seems to be that the Persian army is no longer ἃ 
bow, but in its flight a mere receptacle of the enemies’ darts. 


30 Seven Against Thebes. 


1066 BE. βόα νυν ἀντίδουπά μοι. 
ΧΟ. αἰακτὸς ἐς δόμους κίεις. 
EE. ἰὼ Περσὶς aia δύσβατος. 
ΧΟ. in in, in in. | 
1070 BE. ἰὼ δὴ κατ᾽ ἄστυ 
ΧΟ. ἰὼ δῆτα vat 
EE. γοᾶσθ᾽ ἁβροβάται. 
ΧΟ. ἰὼ Περσὶς aia. 
1075 ΞΕ. ἢ τρισκάλμοις ἢ βάρισιν ὀλόμενοι. 
ΧΟ. πέμψω τοί σε δυσθρόοισιν γόοις. 
Thus every line is responsive in sense and metre. 1072 
and 1075-1076 are dochmiac, the other verses iambic. 





SEVEN AGAINST THEBES. 





Interpretation of vv. 10 ff.: Two classes only are here 
addressed, viz. those below the age of military service and 
those past it. (The rest are in the field). The first class 
are few and of little military account ; the second are with 
good rhetoric reminded that they still preserve much 
vigor, in fact are mature in corporeal power. Commen- 
tators have overlooked this fact—that the speech is here 
rhetorical and artful—In v. 13 I read ὥραν ἔχονθ᾽ 
ἕκαστον. 


54 καὶ τῶνδε πίστις οὐκ ὄκνῳ χρονίζεται. 
Interpretation : ‘ And the pledged faith of these (warriors) 
is not made slow (delayed) by hesitancy.’ 


Seven Against Thebes. 31 


88 ἀλλὰ διαμπερὲς πέδον ὁπλῶν κτύπος 
Dochm. 
ὠσὶ χρίμπτεται, ποτᾶται, βρέμει Dochm., 
δυσαχέτου δίκαν ὕδατος ὀροκτύπου. 


Lamb. 
ἀμαχέτου is without authority. ὀροκτύπου is ‘sounding 
in the mountain.’ See schol. in Guelf. MS. 


1385 σύ τ, "Apns πρόφρον, Κάδμου ἐπώνυμον 
Bi-dochm. 
πόλιν φύλαξον na | 
[Mr. Rogers makes no attempt at a strophic areca 
of the passage. | 


Conject. 143: λιταῖσί σε θεοκλύτοις ἀπύσουσαι 
πελαζόμεσθα. The fut. pte. suits the passage and, with 
long v, corresponds to κινύρονται of the strophe. 


146 στρατῷ δαΐῳ στόνων αἴτιος. 


169 πόλιν δορίπονον μὴ προδῶθ᾽ 
ἑτερόφωνον ἐς στρατόν. 
The other compounds of δίδωμι, 6. g. παραδίδωμι, are 
followed by εἰς. : 


175 λυτήριοί γ᾽ ἀμφιβάντες πόλιν, 
δείξαθ᾽ ὡς φιλοπόλεις, 
μέλεσθέ θ᾽ ἱερῶν δημίων, 
μελόμενοί T ἀρήξατε. 
For the γέ of Begriindung, see Kihn. Gram. § 511, 7. 


206 ἱππικός T ἄμπνεον Tas ὁ λεὼς διὰ 


, 
στομία. 
τος ΟΝ 
- i. > ᾿ς ᾿ς Ἢ 
ah Saat . MS v tS 
Ve Acts me. 
- \ 
; : ταις ' τὰ ee 
mp ag af γαῖ wy ὦ 
PTT WI Bl es ea, 
= ΝΥ (ὦ ' ἂν ws ν᾿ . 7 - 4) 
- , /f 
ee me De yet Hf 


4 a . ι 
Ὁ Ὁ νει απ Ὁ 


32 Seven Against Thebes. 


217 ἀλλ᾽ οὖν θεοὺς 
τόπους ἁλούσης πόλεος ἐκλείπειν λόγος. 
Aeschylus shows a wide and large use of τόπος. 


220 μηδ᾽ ἐπίδοιμι τάνδ᾽ 
ἀστυδομουμέναν πόλιν καὶ στράτευμ᾽ 
ἁπτόμενον πυρὶ δαΐῳ. 

ἀστυδομούμενος “ furnished with a citadel.’ 


224 πειθαρχία yap ἐστι τῆς εὐπραξίας 
μήτηρ' γύναι, τήρησον, ὧδ᾽ ἔχει λόγος. 


277 θήσειν τροπαῖα, πολεμίων δ᾽ ἐσθήματα 
λάφυρα δώσειν δουρίπληχθ᾽ ἁγνοῖς δόμοις. 


280 λόγους ἱκέσθαι καὶ φλέγειν χρείαν ὕπερ. 
χρείαν ὕπερ ‘needlessly.’ χρείας ὕπο yields no sense. 


288 γείτονες δὲ καρδίαν 
μέριμναι ζωπυροῦσι: τάρβος 
τὸν ἀμφιτειχῆ λεὼν δρακόντι" τώς τις τέκνων 
ὑπερδεδοικυῖ᾽ ἐχίδνας δυσευνάτορας 
πάντροφος πελειάς. 
As ordinarily read, v. 290 is grammatically unintelligible. 
Nor can dragons (which were large serpents) cradle them- 
selves, two or three at a time, in the nest with young 
doves. [Among eight various emendations the above is 
marked by Mr. Rogers ‘ Final.’ One other is subjoined 
of apparently earlier date : 
γείτονες δὲ καρδίαν 
μέριμναι ζωπυροῦσι: ταρβῶ 
τὸν ἀμφιτειχῆ λεών. δράκοντα τώς τις τέκνων 
ὑπερδέδοικεν λεχαίων δυσευνήτειρα KTH. | 


Seven Against Thebes. 33 


312 ὦ πολιοῦχοι 
θεοί, τοῖσι μὲν ἔξω 
4 > / 
πύργων ἀνδρολέτειραν 
7 es Ψ 
κοίταν, ῥίψοπλον ἄταν, 
ἐμβαλόντες 
κοίτη ‘the sleep of death.’ 


333. κλαυτὸν δ᾽ ἀνδρὶ τρόπον γ᾽ ὠμοδρόπων 
νομίμων προπάροιθεν διαμεῖψραι 
δωμάτων στυγερὰν ὁδόν. x. 


345 κορκορυγαὶ 8 ἀνιστᾶσι" ποτὶ πτόλιν δ᾽ 
Dochm. στρ. 
ὁρκάνα πυργῶτις, ἷ 
πρὸς ἀνδρὸς δ᾽ ἀνὴρ δορὶ κλίνεται.Ἡ Dochm. 
357 παντοδαπὸς δὲ καρπὸς χαμάδις πεσὼν ἀντ. 
ἀλγύνει κύρσαντας (vel κύρσαντα) 
πικρὸν © ὄμμα τῶν θυωματοπόλχων. 
[No explanation is given]. 


352 ξυμβάλλει φέρων φέροντι, 
καὶ κενὸς κενὸν καλεῖ, 
4 7 4 
Evvvopov θέλων ἔχειν" 
>O\ a > » / 
οὐδὲ μεῖον οὐδ᾽ ἴσον λελιμμένον 
τιν᾽ ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ εἰκάσαι λόγος πάρα. 
‘But that no one is desirous of a less or equal share is 
plain from what is said.’ 


364 τλᾶσά τις εὐνὰν αἰχμάλωτον 
ἀνδρὸς εὐτυχοῦντος κτλ. 


8714 σπουδὴ δὲ καὶ τούτου καταρτίζει πόδα. 


442 θνητὸς ὧν εἰς οὐρανὸν 
ἔμπας γέγωνε Ζηνὶ κυμαίνοντ᾽ ἔπη. 


34 Seven Against Thebes. 


Conject. 472: πέμποιμ᾽ ἂν ἤδη τινά ye, σὺν τύχῃ 
δ᾽ ἔτει. At any rate, if the common reading be retained, 
it should be τύχῃ δὲ τῷ (denionstr.), not δέ τῳ. 


473 καὶ δὴ πέπεμπται κόμπον οὐ χεροῖν ἔχων 
509 ἀνὴρ γὰρ ἐχθρὸς ἀνδρὶ τῷ ξυστήσεται 


520. σωτὴρ γένοιτ᾽ ὁ Ζεὺς ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδος τυχών. 
Not ‘ Zeus,’ but ‘ the Zeus’ upon his shield. 


560 ἔξω θανοῦσ᾽ ἡ τῷ φέροντι μέμψεται 


562 θεῶν θελόντων νῦν ἀληθεύσαιμ᾽ ἐγώ. 
Conject.: θεῶν θελόντων δ᾽ οὖν κτλ. 


576 καὶ τὸν σὸν αὖθις προσμολὼν ἀδελφὸν ὅδ᾽ 

ἐξυπτιάζων ὄνομα Πολυνείκους βίᾳ 

δίς τ᾽ ἐν τελευτῇ τοὔνομ᾽ ἐνδατούμενος 

καλεῖ" 
‘And advancing toward thy brother he, forcibly laying 
the name of Polynices on its back (like an animal to be 
slaughtered) and dividing it in two parts, calls out, ete.—’ 
Conject: : ἐξορθιάξων ‘ shouting forth,’ the scribe thinking 
of ὄρθιος and ὕπτιος as correlated and writing one for the 
other. [With ὅδ᾽ in v. 576 (σχῆμα Σοφόκλειον) one may 
recall Hermann’s emendation of Eum. 137 Tod’. | 


599 ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆς 
κάκιον οὐδὲν καρπὸς οὗ κομιστέος" 
"Arns ἄρουραν θάνατος ἐκκαρπίζεται. 
‘Tn all matters there is nothing which bears fruit (literally, 
of which the fruit is to be reaped) worse than association 
with the bad. The field of Até Death reaps utterly.’ 
[Last v. anticipated by Lowinski. | 


Seven Against Thebes. 35 


627 ὡς πόλις εὐτυχῇ 
δορίπονα κάκ᾽ ἐκτρεποῦσα γᾶς πρὸς 
ἐπιμόλους. 

εὐτυχῇ is to be construed with the pte. Their λυταί were, 
not that the city might be prosperous in general, but that 
it might succeed in repelling the threatened evils. The 
reading of the strophic line to 628, viz. 565, should be 
μεγάλα peyarnyopev κλύουσαν. 


057 ἢ ζῶντ᾽ ἄτιμον ἀρτίως ἀνδρηλάτην 
‘Or living dishonored who was lately an ostraciser.’ 
[ἀρτίως “first in Soph.” Liddell and Scott. ] 


695 φίλου yap ἐχθρά μοι πατρὸς τελοῦσ᾽ apa 
τελεῖν intrans, and referring to τελεῖν in v. 699, 


697 λέγουσα κέρδος πρότερον ὕστερον μόρον, 


Interpretation of vv. 698-9. The meaning plainly 
seems to be: ‘ But’ you will not incur the imputation of 
cowardice by preserving life.’ 


699 μέλαναιγὶς δ᾽ οὐκ 
εἶσι δόμον σὸν Ἔ ριννύς, εὖτ᾽ ἂν χεροῖν 
θεοὶ θυσίαν δέχωνται. 
[For the form of the first dochmiac in v. 700 (if it be ἃ 
dochmiac), cf. Suppl. 349. ] 


705 viv ὅδε σοι παρέστακεν'" 
ὅδε Sc. μόρος, already personified in preceding verse. 


732 ὁπόσαν καιρὸς φθιμένοις κατέχειν 
καιρός in its primitive sense. The corresponding verse in 
the strophe is κατάρας βχαψίφρονος Οἰδυπόδα. 


36 Seven Against Thebes. 


736 καὶ χθονός, in, κόνις πίῃ 
The interjection here is perfectly natural. 


Ὁ \ \ 
753 ὅστε, μὴ πρὸς ἁγνὰν 
/ 9 b / 

σπείρας ᾿Αρουραν, ἀνατρέφειν 
/ 

ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν 

+ 

ἐτλα. 


706 τελείαις γὰρ παλχλαιφάτοις Apacs 
᾿ βαρεῖαι καταλλαγαί: 
‘ Difficult is the conciliation (removal) of ancient avenging 
prayers.’ 


714 πόλεος πολυβίοτός τ᾽ αἰὼν βροτῶν 


788 πατροφόνῳ χερὶ τοῦ 
\ > / 3 τὰν ᾽ ς Dee / 
κρατὸς ἐκνήσατ᾽ ὄμματ᾽: ὡς δ᾽ ἐπλάγχθη 
τέκνοισιν ἀραίας 
244A 5 / / 
ἐφῆκεν ἐπικότους στροφάς 
[No commentary is given. | 


825 πότερον χαίρω, κἀπολολύξω 
πόλεως ἀσινοῦς 
ἢ τοὺς κτλ. 
σωτῆρι is irreptitious, explanatory of downs. [ἀσινοῦς 
anticipated by Heimsoeth. | 


839 ἢ δύσορνις ἅδε ξυναυλία δορὸς 
ἐξέπραξεν, οὐδ᾽ ἀπεῖπε, 
πατρόθεν εὐκταίαν φάτιν" 
“ΤῊ15 duel of spears has fulfilled, not refused, ete.’ With 
a full stop after δορός the text announces mere truism. 
Who could doubt that a duel which destroyed two brothers 
—kings—was ill-omened ? 


Seven Against Thebes. 37 


854 πίτυλον, ὃς αἰὲν δι’ ᾿Αχέροντ᾽ ἀμείβεται 

τὰν ἀείστονον μελάγκροκον 

ναυστολῶν θεωρίδα, 

ναῦν ἀστιβῆ ᾿Απόλλωνι, ναῦν ἀνάλιον 
‘That conductive Beat (timed movement) which ever 
crosses Acheron directing—.’ [In Wellaur’s text vv. 
846-860 constitute an epode. ναυστολῶν anticipated by 
Schwenk. | 


889 τετυμμένοι δῆθ᾽ opo- 
σπλάγχνων τε πλευρωμάτων 

οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἐπὶ φιλίᾳ. Dochm. 

Υ. 891 is found in the MSS. after 883 by misplacement. 


908 διαλλακτὴρ ὅδ᾽ οὖν 
μομφῆς ἄτερ φίλοις 
οὐδ᾽ ἐπίχαρις, "Αρης. 
‘Therefore the arbiter here, Ares (seen in the wounds), 
has no blame from friends, nor thanks.’ 


~ 


915 μάλ᾽ ayo δόμων αὐτοὺς προπέμπει στρ. 
927 δυσδαίμων σφὶν a τεκοῦσα πασῶν ἀντ. 


Based on readings of Bothe and others. 


968 ἰὼ πάλιν, δακρυτὲ σύ στρ. 

980 οὐδ᾽ ἵἕκεθ᾽ ὡς κατέκτανεν. ἀντ. 

973 ἐχθρῶν τοίων τάδ᾽ ἐγγύθεν. στρ. 
πέλας ἀδελφοῖν aderded. 

984 δύστονα κήδε᾽ ὁμώνυμα. ἀντ. 


δίυγρά τε τριπλᾶ᾽ παρ᾽ αἱμάτων. 
Str.: ‘Of such enemies these (bodies) here lie near (each 
other). Close to the brothers, the sisters.’ Ant.: ‘Sor- 
rowful obsequies of common title! Bathed thrice with 
bloodshed (not tears).’ 


38 Prometheus. 


995 ia ia πόνος. 


ὑμῖν ἐξημμένος. 

δώμασι καὶ χθονί, 

πρὸ πάντων δ᾽ ἐμοί. 

καὶ πρόσω γ᾽ ἐμοί. 

δυσπόνων κακῶν. 
ἐμοί in 998--9 shows that ἡμῖν of the MSS. in 996 is in- 
consistent with the sequence of thought. 


1004 ἰὼ παῖδε πατρὶ παρεύνω. 
1028 ἐγώ σφε θάψω κἂν ἀκίνδυνον βάλω 
θάψασ᾽ ἀδελφὸν τὸν ἐμόν, οὐδ᾽ αἰσχύνομαι 
‘T will bury him and if I cast him out of danger (of the 


destination decreed for his body by the state) by so bury- 
ing him, I shall not be ashamed—.’ 





PROMETHEUS. 





V. ΟἽ reject as plainly spurious, because absurd in it- 
self and contrary to the poet’s idea. Chains would allow 
the prisoner motion, whereas Prom. was to be irremovably 


fixed. 


49 ἅπαντ᾽ ἐπήχθη πλὴν θεοῖσι κοιρανεῖν. 
Sense: ‘ All things are fated—made firm (πήγνυμι) except 
the sovereignty of the gods.’ His province a god chooses 
not but receives from Jove’s determination. Thus Kratos’ 
reply is in effect: Such duty as falls to you to-day is not 
matter of λάχεῖν, as you seem to think. It is just because 
Zeus willed it. 


Prometheus. 39 
“61 ἔγνωκα" τοῖσδε σ᾽ οὐδὲν ἀντειπεῖν ἔχω. 


264 νουθετεῖν TE τοὺς κακῶς 
πράσσοντας" εἴθε ταῦθ᾽ ἅπαντ᾽ ἠπιστάμην. 
That he did not foreknow all things is evident from v. 268. 


354 Τυφῶνα θοῦρον, πάρος ὃς ἀντέστη θεοῖς 
καὶ νῦν in v. 363 will thus introduce the present contrast. 


427 "Ατλανθ᾽ ὃς αἰὲν ὑπειροχὴν χθονὸς 
κραταιὰν οὐράνιόν τε πόλον 
νώτοις ὑποστενάζει. 
[There is no mention of Hermann’s antistrophic treatment 
of vy. 425-435. | 


543 padia γνώμᾳ σέβει θνατοὺς κτλ. 
ῥάδιος in the sense ‘ hasty, rash, inconsiderate.’ 


Conject. 567: εἴδωλον “Apyou γηγενοῦς careveo | 
τὸν μυριωπὸν εἰσορῶσα βούταν. For metre cf. preced- 
ing verse. 


600 σκιρτημάτων τ᾽ ἔγνως τίσιν αἰκίαις 
λαβρόσσυτος προσῆλθον 
τέ corresponds to the τέ οὗ v. 596 θεόσσυτόν te. The 
two clauses are epexegetic of the preceding question ris 
ὦν με... WO ἔτυμα προσθροεῖς ; V. 601 is antistrophic 
to 581 παράκοπον ὧδε τείρεις. 


791 πρὸς ἀντολὰς φλογῶπας ἡλίου στρόβει 
πόντου πελῶσα φλοῖσβον 
For a defence of the verb πελάω, see Ellendt-Genthe’s 
Lex. Soph. 


860 Πελασγία δὲ δέξεται θηλυκτόνους 
νεκροὺς δαμέντων 


40 Agamemnon. 


898 τρίβω yap ἀστεργάνορα παρθενίαν 
εἰσορῶσ᾽ ᾿Ιὼ μέγα δαπτομέναν 
δυσπλάνοις “Ἥρας ἀλατείαις πάλαι. 


1001 ὀχλεῖς μάτην με κύματ᾽ ὡς παρηγορῶν. 
ὅπως is never used by Aeschylus in simple comparison. 


1056 τί γὰρ ἐλλείπει μὴ παραπαίειν, 
εἰ τοῖα τυχών τι χαλᾷ μανίαις; 
‘For is he not mad, if meeting such punishment he 
gives the rein to ravings?’ 





AGAMEMNON. 





Construe vv. 1-2: πόνων φρουρᾶς ἐτείας μῆκος ‘of 
a watch year-long in length,’ 


V.7 is genuine. The Phylax refers in vy. 5-6 to the 
rise and fall of constellations annual, in 7 to the rise and 
set of stars diurnal, thus emphasizing the fact that his 
watch was from sunset to sunrise for an entire year. 


12 εὖτ᾽ ἂν δὲ νυκτίπλαγκτον ἔνδροσόν τ᾽ ἔχω 
εὐνὴν ὀνείροις οὐκ ἐπισκοπουμένην 
va: φόβος γὰρ κτλ. 
‘I purse up my eyes; for fear prevents my firmly closing 
them in sleep.’ μύω is the effect of heavy sleepiness, but 
without sleep. In addition to the apposite parallels cited 
in the dictionaries 5. v. μύω, see also especially Ar. Vesp. 
91-92: 


Agamemnon. | 41 


ὕπνου δ᾽ ὁρᾷ τῆς νυκτὸς οὐδὲ πασπάλην. 

x > 9 / x » “ > a 

ἣν δ᾽ οὖν καταμύσῃ κἂν ἄχνην, ὅμως ἐκεῖ κτλ. 
Cf. also Batrachom. 190-192 ὕπνου δευομένην οὐκ εἴασαν 
θορυβοῦντες | οὐδ᾽ ὀλίγον καταμῦσαι. 


40 τρόπον αἰγυπιῶν, 
οἵτ᾽ ἐκπάτιοι χλάεσι παίδων 
ὕπατοι λεχέων στροφοδινοῦνται 

‘Which out of the reach of boys’ missiles, high over the 
nests—.’ The poet’s picture is that of birds flying round 
their nest, from which boys have just driven them and 
stolen their young. The scribe mistook a for y in λάεσι, 
then prefixed a to make a word, which in turn led him to 
add ς to ἐκπάτιοι. 


69 τελεῖται δὴ TO πεπρωμένον. 
οὔθ᾽ ὑποκαίων οὐθ᾽ ὑπολείβων 
οὔτε δακρύων ἑτέρων ἱερῶν 
ὀργὰς ἀτενὴς παραθέλξει. 
For δή with τελεῖται cf. Prom. 57 Ἰεραϊμέται ὟΝ 13 
τέλος δή, Pers. 228 ἐκτελοῖτο δή. ἀτενής ‘however per- 
severing, insistent.’ 


76 ὅτε yap νεαρὸς μυελὸς στέρνων 

ἐντὸς ἀνάσσων 

ἰσόπρεσβυς, "Apns τ᾽ οὐκ ἔνι χώρᾳ, 

τόθ᾽ ὑπέργηρως φυλλάδος ἤδη κτλ. 
ὅτε----τόθ᾽ with the old vulgate. ‘For when fresh marrow 
(like a plant’s sap) springing up in a man’s breast has 
grown old like himself, and there is no fight in him, then 
truly aged, in the sear and yellow leaf, he wanders—.’ 
τίς or ἄνθρωπος is implied in στέρνων. juvedds ἐσόπρε- 
o8vs—the marrow has aged with the man. 


42 Agamemnon. 


94 φαρμασσομένη χρίματος ἁγνοῦ 
μάλ᾽ ἑκὰς δηλοῦσα παρηγορίας 
πελάνου μυχόθεν βασιλείων. 
From ν. 92: ‘One and another lamp throughout the town 
flames up to heaven fed with pure oil, widely displaying 
the persuasions of (i. e. being incited by) the incense from 
the palace.’—The mixed oil and spices (πέλανος) poured 
on the pine billets of the altars begot a light and perfume, 
which diffusing itself through the city incited the people 
to a general illumination. In their lamps was burnt pure 
thin oil (χρῖμα ἁγνόν). 


99 παίων τε γενοῦ τῆσδε μερίμνης" 
ς 54 Pp ἂν \ / ΄ 
ὡς ἔσθ᾽ ὅτε μὲν κακόφρων τελχέθω, 
\ ἌΡ ἝΝ a > \ / 2 
τοτὲ δ᾽ ἐκ θυσιῶν ἀγανὰ φαίνουσ 
ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδ᾽ ἄπληστον 
τὴν θυμοβόρον φρενὶ λύπην. 
ὡς is quoniam, quandoquidem, especially common after 
imperative, hortatory subjunctive, and optative. 


105 ἔτι yap θεόθεν καταπνείει 
πειθὼ μολπαῖς 
ἀλκὰν σύμφυτον αἰνεῖν 
The scholiast’s πείθει με μέλπειν shows that he read 
αἰνεῖν. [Anticipated by Jacobs. | 


119 βοσκόμενοι λαγίναν ἐρικύμονα φέρματι, γυῖα 
βλαβέντα λοισθίων δρόμων. 


124 ἐδάη λαγοδαίτας 
πομποὺς ὄρνεις" 


Conject. 132: στόμιον μετὰ Τροίαν στρατευθέν. The 
στόμιον is on its way to Troy. 


cacti 


we «(ὁ 


Agamemnon. 43 


135 el πως 
yap ἐπίφθονος "Aptemis κτλ. 
στυγεῖ δὲ δεῖπνον αἰετῶν, 
αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ᾽ εὖ νικάτω. 
‘ For if Artemis dislikes her father’s winged dogs and hates 
their banquet, sing woe—’. Put comma after αἰετῶν. 


140 τόσον περ εὔφρων ἃ Kara 

δρόσοις ἀέπτοις μαλακῶν νεοσσῶν 

πάντων T ἀγρονόμων φιλομάστοις 

θηρῶν ὀβρικάλοις, ἀτερπῆ 

ταῦτ᾽ αἰετοῦ ξύμβολα κρίνω 

δεξιὰ μέν, κατάμομφα δὲ φάσματα. 
The common reading in v. 141 is μαλερῶν λεόντων. But 
nothing is known connecting lions with Artemis. [ἀτερπῆ 
anticipated by Karsten. Mr. Rogers does not translate 
the passage. His sense may be either: ‘ However kindly 
disposed Artemis be to young things, I yet judge this joy- 
less eagle-omen favorable, though not without reproach,’ 
or: ‘So mindful is Artemis of young things, I judge this 
eagle-omen (though fair) to be not wholly fair.’ For πέρ 
in the sense of quoniam see Ebeling’s Homeric Lexicon I 
A, d, a).] 


149 μή τινας avtitvoous Δαναοῖς ypovias ἐχενῇδας 
sh 2 oh / 
ρτεμις ἀπλοΐας τεύξῃ, 
7 ᾿ς Civ - 7 / ᾽ 
σπευδομένα θυσίαν ἑτέραν, ἄνομόν τιν 
ἀδαίτων 
νεικέων τέκτον᾽ ἀσύμφυτον οὐδ᾽ εὐήνορα. 
μίμνει κτλ. 
ἀδαίτων ‘unfeastlike,’ ἀσύμφυτον ‘unnatural’ οὐδ᾽ εὐή- 
vopa ‘unmanly.’ οὐδέ often follows an adjective com- 
pounded with a privitive. 


44 | Agamemnon. 


165 πλὴν Διός, εἰς τίνα TOOT ἀπὸ φροντίδος ἄχθος 
χρὴ βαλεῖν ἐτητύμως" 
οὐδ᾽ ὅστις πάροιθεν ἣν μέγας, 
παμμάχῳ θράσει βρύων, 
τῶνδ᾽ ἄλυξιν ἂν πόροι. 
For the indirect question εἰς τίνα χρή, οἵ. 6. g. Prom. 659. 
Instead of πόροι perhaps πορών with εἴη understood, for 
which see Kiihn. Gram. ὃ 354 Anm. 2. 


In v. 177 τῷ πάθει μάθος θέντα κυρίως ἔχειν of the 
MSS. is to be defended. τῷ πάθει = τοῖς παθοῦσι, da- 
tivus personalis.—In y. 181 put colon for the usual period 
after ἦλθε σωφρονεῖν. 


214 παυσανέμου γὰρ θυσίας 
παρθενίου θ᾽ αἵματος ὀρ- 
γᾷ περ ἀρωγᾶς ἐπιθυ- 
μεῖν θέμις. 
‘For it is right (for me and others) to long for the help 
(aid) of the sacrifice even with passion,’ not ‘to long for 
the sacrifice itself’ as the common text has it. Cf. v. 226, 


218 ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἔδυ λέπαδνον 

φρενὸς πνέων δυσσεβῆ τροπαίαν 

ἄναγνον, ἀνίερον, τότ᾽ οὐ 

τὸ παντότολμον φρονεῖν μετέγνω. 

βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρομήτεις 

τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων. 
‘ After he took upon himself the yoke . . ., then he changed 
not his daring resolve. For a wretched madness—the first 
penalfy—emboldens mortals engaging in wicked plans.’— 
There is no early authority for the sense given by the 
ordinary interpretation to τόθεν of the common text in v, 


Agamemnon, 45 


220. With τὸ φρονεῖν cf. 927 τὸ μὴ κακῶς φρονεῖν, 1425 
τὸ σωφρονεῖν, Suppl. 1018 τὸ σωφρονεῖν. If one hesitates 
to read the plural form αἰσχρομήτεις (in which lies the 
point of the parenthesis Bpotots ..... πρωτοπήμων), 
βροτόν may be read, the singular being used by Aesch. 
and Soph. five times each, as a mere substitute for ἀνήρ, 
ἄνθρωπος, τὶς. 


242 ἐπεὶ πολλάκις 
πατρὸς κατ᾽ ἀνδρῶνας εὐτρᾳπέζους 
ἔμελψαν. ἁγνὰ δ᾽' ἀμαύρωτος αὐδὰν 
πατρὸς 

φίλου τριτόσπονδον εὔποτμον 

αἰῶνα φίχως ἐτίμα. 
It is impossible that Aesch. represented Agamemnon as 
bringing in his unmarried virgin daughter to sing at a 
banquet, or imagined that Agamemnon entertained as 
guests men of the class of the door, popae. As sacrifices 
were accompanied often with song and dance, it is natural 
that the dofo. were the singers at the royal feasts, but 
certainly never guests. (From the emendation ἀμαύρωτος, 
referring probably to vv. 235-237, Mr. Rogers would 
seem to have assumed that the parenthesis closed with 
ἔμελψαν, the following taking up again the story of the 
sacrifice at Aulis. ] 


286 ὑπερτελής τε πόντον ὥστε νωτίσαι 
ἰσχὺς πορευτοῦ λαμπάδος πρὸς ἡδονὴν 
σπεύδει, τὸ χρυσοφεγγὲς ὥς τις ἥλιος, 
σέλας παραγγείλασα κτλ. 
‘More than sufficing to cross the sea, the power of the 
torch hastens on for joy (in lustre like a sun), having 
announced its gleam—.’—The scribe, seeing πεύκη in the 


46 A gamemnon. 


margin (as an explanation of ἰσχὺς πορευτοῦ λαμπάδος) 
and a faint word like it in the beginning of the next line, 
imported it into the text. 


304 ὥτρυνε θεσμίου χαρίζεσθαι πυρός. 
πυρός is ἃ partitive genitive. 


307 mpav ὑπερβάλλειν: πρὸς ὃν 
φλέγουσ᾽ ἔπείτ᾽ ἔσκηψεν, εἶτ᾽ ἀφίκετο κτλ. 
Aesch. uses εἶτα but once elsewhere (Prom. 777), ἔπειτα 
frequently and as here next after participles. Cf. Eum. 
29, 438, 654, Sept. 267. 


345 θεοῖς δ᾽ ἀναμπλάκητος εἰ μόλοι στρατός, 
ἐγρηγορὸς τόθ᾽ αἷμα τῶν ὀλωλότων 
γένοιτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ πρόσπαια μὴ τύχοι κακά. 
‘The blood of the dead would then awake, even if the 
army should escape accidental evils.’—7fua. which is 
simply ‘loss, hurt, suffering,’ will not yield the sense im- 
posed by commentators. Even πτῶμα would be better 
than πῆμα. For τότε in apodosis after εἰ with the 
optative, cf. Soph. Elect. 413 εἴ μοι λέγοις τὴν ὄψιν, ᾿ 
εἴποιμ᾽ ἂν τότε. 


8560 μέγα δούλειον 
γάγγαμον ἄτης παναλώτου. 
This, to ease the construction. Cf. too the frequent 
δούλιον ζυγόν. 


8514 πέφανται δ᾽ ἡ γονὴ 
ἄτολμος τῶν Αρη 
πνεόντων κτλ. 

I. e. ἡ γονὴ οὖσα ἄτολμος πέφανται. 


Agamemnon. 47 


378 ἔστω δ᾽ ἀπή- 
μαντον, ὥστε κἀπαρκεῖ 
εὖ πραπίδων λαχόντι. 
‘ But (instead of wealth) let there be such freedom from 
ill as contents a wise man.’ καί before ἀπαρκεῖ would 
lead us to expect here a verb finite. 


385 βιᾶται δ᾽ ἁ τάλαινα, πενθεῖ 

ἃ προὔβαλλ᾽ ὁ παῖς ἄφερτος “Atas. 
392 μεθ᾽ ἁρπαγῆς πλέει ἢ 

δικαιωθείς κτλ. 

Sense: ‘The wretched woman is overpersuaded, the child 
of Até repents his plans. But cure is vain. The evil 
comes to light. Like common brass (distinguished from 
noble bronze) by rubs and strokes, so he sails with his 
prey adjudged—.’ [These direct references to Paris cer- 
tainly anticipate the οἷος καὶ Ildpis of v. 399—the par- 
ticular example of the previous generalizing. | 


396 λιυτᾶν δ᾽ ἀκούει μὲν οὔτις θεῶν, 
hb eee ΡΜ τ Ξ 
οὐδ᾽, ἐπίστροφος τῶνδε, 
φὰς ὦ » 7] 
φῶτ᾽ ἄδικον καθαίρει. 


412 πάρεστι σῖγ᾽ ἅτ᾽ ἄτιμος ἀλοίδορος 
adus T ἐς ἐφεμένους ἰδεῖν. 
‘He may be seen (instead of shutting himself up), but is 
silent in his dishonor, railing at none and courteous to 
those allowed entrée.’ Aeschylus here exhibits his ideal 
of dignified conduct. 


Note on 469-70: βάλλεται yap ὄσσοις Διόθεν Kepav- 
ovs. This is a physical truth. See Lieut. Col. Dodge’s 
“Black Hills,” p. 60, who says in substance: Three 


48 Agamemnon. 


soldiers and their horses were struck by the same flash, 
one soldier and the three horses killed. The men were 
struck on the cheek-bone just under the eye, the horses on 
the brow just above. Also W. de Fonvielle’s “ Thunder 
and Lightning,” translation of J. L. Phipson, p. 140, in 
substance: On the 11th of May, 1865, on the summit of 
the mountain called the Gay- Vieux-Sarts, a shepherd and 
flock of 126 sheep were killed by lightning. Some of the 
sheep had their heads pierced from side to side. 


494 μαρτυρεῖ δ᾽ ἔμοιγ᾽ ἄσις 
πηλοῦ ξύνουρος διψίᾳ κόνι τόδε 
ξύνουρος is thus brought back to its literal and only sense. 
κόνις is not here ‘ flying dust,’ but ‘ soil,’ for which mean- 
ing see Soph. O. C. 406, Elect. 435, Ant. 247. ἄσις 
πηλοῦ is the marshy ground at the head of a bay where 
some stream flows into it, furnishing a landing. The 
herald comes by water. 


/ \ / Aa:9 3 n 7 a 
547 πόθεν τὸ δύσφρον τοῦτ᾽ ἐπῆν στέγεις στρατῷ; 
‘You conceal whence—?’ 


Interpretation 562: τιθέντες ἔνθηρον τρίχα, ‘laying 
flat the hairs of the sheepskins ἅμ, other furs.’ τιθέντες 
= κατατιθέντες. 


695 κατ᾽ ἴχνος πλατᾶν ἄφαντον στρ. 
/ 
κελσάντων Σιμόεντος ἀκ- 
τὰς ἐπ᾽ αὐξιφύχλους 
δι' ἔριν αἱματόεσσαν. 
κικλήσκου. ἀντ. 
7 \ fhe? 
σα Ildpw τὸν aivorextpor, 
\ a 4 i 
πρὶν προσθῇ πολύθρηνον ai - 
νον φίλων πολιτῶν 
μέλεον αἷμ᾽ ἀνατλᾶσα. 


Agamemnon. 49 


During the siege Troy might call Paris αἰνόλεκτρος, but 
now how much worse the aivos, ‘she having suffered 
sad carnage.’ [αἶνον anticipated in Schoemann’s (very 
different) emendation. | 


705 πρασσομένα, τὸ νυμφότιμον 
μέλος ἐκφανῶς τίουσ᾽ ὡς 
ὑμέναιον, ὃς τότ᾽ ἐπέρρεπεν 
γαμβροῖσιν ἀείδειν. 
μῆνις (in v. 701) honors (τίουσ᾽) the song in honor of the 
young wife (sung at Troy on Helen’s arrival) as a true 
Hymenaeal which—.’ [riovo’ C. G. Haupt. ] 


756 βλαστάνειν μακαριστὸν ὄζον. 
Sense from v. 750: ‘The old saying was: The climax of 
blessing 1o the rich man is a son and heir, fortunate the 
family for which the happy scion springs. But I say 
otherwise. For—.’—Conject. v. 758: τὸ δυσσεβὲς yap 
ἔρνος, for explanation of which see the next emendation. 


764 φιλεῖ δὲ τίκτειν ὕβρις 

μὲν παλαιὰ νεά- 

ζουσαν ἐν κακοῖς βροτῶν ὕβριν' 

ἡ δὲ 700,’ ὅταν τὸ κύριον μόλῃ, νέα 

φέρει φάους κότῳ 

δαίμονα τρίτον ἄμαχον, ἀπόλεμον 

ἀνίερον θράσος μελαί- 

νας μελάθροισιν “Aras 

εἰδόμενον τοκεῦσιν. 
τοκεῦσιν is both parent and grandparent. For we have 
here three generations: ὕβρις, νέα ὕβρις, and θράσος. 
The climax of vices is not usually exhibited by the son 
of the man who has acquired wealth (having shared his 


4 


50 Agamemnon. 


humble earlier life), but by the grandson.—ddous κότῳ 
‘from hatred of the light.’ The tyrant of the Greeks 
always sought safety in seclusion. [After various emen- 
dations and rejections Mr. Rogers’ reading of the anti- 
strophe seems to have remained as it stands in Wellauer’s 
text : 
714 δίκα δὲ λάμπει μὲν ἐν 
δυσκάπνοις δώμασιν, 
τὸν δ᾽ ἐναίσιμον τίει βίον. 
τὰ χρυσόπαστα δ᾽ ἐσθλὰ σὺν πινῳ χερῶν 
παλιντρόποισιν ὄμ- 
μασι λυποῦσ᾽ ὅσια προσέβα 
δύναμιν οὐ σέβουσα πλού- 
780 του παράσημον alive: 
πᾶν δ᾽ ἐπὶ τέρμα νωμᾷ. 
On ἔδεθλα, Auratus’ emendation on ἐσθλά v. 777, Mr. 
Rogers remarks: “denotes the very bottom-foundation, 
never plated with gold, which was reserved for ceilings.”’ | 


942 AT. 4 καὶ od νίκην τήνδε δωρεὰν Ties; 
KA. πιθοῦ" κράτος μέντοι πάρες γ᾽ ἑκὼν ἐμοί. 
‘Do you too honor (estimate, regard) this victory as a 
free gift on my part?—Believe me, I do. But do you 
yield it me ungrudgingly.’ 


948 πολλὴ yap αἰδὼς στρώματα φθείρειν ποσὶν 

φθεὶρ ὥστε πλοῦτον ἀργυρονήτους θ᾽ ὑφάς, 

Ellipse of φθείρει with φθείρ. ‘As the creeping insect 
destroys wealth and silver-bought garments.’ 


975 τίπτε μοι τόδ᾽ ἐμπέδως 
δεῖγμα προστατήριον ; 
καρδία τερασκόπος ποτῶται 


Agamemnon. 51 


μαντιπολεῖ T ἀκέλευστος ἄμισθος ἀοιδάν" 
οὐδ᾽ ἀποπτύσαι, δίκαν κτλ. 
‘Why this phantom ever before me? My prophetic heart 
flutters and, unbidden, unhired, utters its mantic strain. 
Nor does confidence sit in my bosom to reject it as an 
obscure dream.’—Conject.: ἐμποδών, ‘Why this phantom 
standing in my way?’ At any rate ἐμπέδως ποτᾶται 
‘firmly flies’ as it is usually punctuated is absurd. 


1001] μάλα γάρ ἐστι Tas στρ. 
πολλᾶς ὑγιείας 
ἀόριστον τέρμα: νόσος γάρ τις ὡς 
γείτων ὁμότοιχος ἐρείδει, 
1006 καὶ πότμον εὐθυποροῦσ᾽ 
ἀνδρὸς ἔπαισεν ὁδὸς 
ὡς ἄφαντον ἕρμα. 
Kai τις ἂν πρὸ χρημάτων 
κτησίων ὄκνῳ βαλὼν κτλ. 
Sense from v. 1005: ‘And the straight (prosperous) course 
of a man strikes fatality as an invisible rock. And to 
save his wealth throwing overboard reluctantly the just 
quantity, the house has not gone down—.’ [ἀόριστον ant. 
by Karsten, ὄκνῳ by A. Ludwig. ] 


1015 πολλά τοι δόσις ἐκ Διὸς ἀμφιλα- 
/ \ > > / > / 
φής τε καὶ ἐξ ἀλόκων ἐπέτειος 
νῆστιν ὦλεσεν νόσον. 
1019 τὸ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γᾶν πεσὸν ἀντ. 
/ / 
πέριξ θανάσιμον κτλ. 
1022 οὐδὲ τὸν ὀρθοδαῆ 


A / > ͵ 
τῶν φθιμένων ἀνάγειν 
Ζεὺς ἔπαυσ᾽ ἄνατον. 


52 Agamemnon, 


V. 1024 corresponds to 1007 of the strophe. ‘Nor did 
Zeus without hurt restrain him who knew how to restore 
the dead.’ ἐπ᾽ ἀβλαβείᾳ of the cod. Farnes. is an inter- 
pretation which has crept into the text. 


Interpretation of vv. 1025-29: Did not Fate forbid 
me to report (as a messenger, φέρειν) further the fatal 
action (to be done) by the gods, my prophetic heart would 
-pour these things upon my tongue (ἂν τάδ᾽ ἐξέχει). 


1090 μισόθεον μὲν οὗν, πολλὰ συνίστορα στρ. 
αὐτοφόνα κακά; κάρτα νῦν Dochm., and Jamb. 
ἀνδρὸς σφαγεῖον καὶ ποδοῖν ῥαντήριον. 

σφαγεῖον ‘slaughter-house,’ ῥαντήριον ‘place of foot- 
washing’ (with blood). 


1095 μαρτυρίοισι yap τοῖσδ᾽ ἐπυιπείθομαι ἀντ. 
κλαιομένα βρεφῶν σφαγὰς κτλ. 


1098 ἔοικεν εὔρις ἡ ξένη κυνὸς δίκην 
3 / > | 3 A ς 7 ‘ 
εἶναι, watever δ᾽ οὖν ὃν εὑρήσει φόνον. 


1118 ἢ δίκτυόν τί γ᾽ “Αἰιδου" 
εἷλχ᾽ ἄρκυν ἡ ξύνευνος, ἡ ξυναιτία 
φόνου. στάσις δ᾽ ἀκόρετος γόον 
κατολοχλυξάτω θύματος λευσίμου. 
Sense: ‘(What do I see?) Surely some net of Hades. 
His spouse has seized it. Let the insatiate band of 
-Furies now howl the lament of sacrificial stoning (i. e. 
‘for woman stoned for murder of her husband),’ 


1121 ἐπὶ δὲ καρδίαν ἔδραμε κροκοβαφὴς 
σταγών, ἅτε καιρίᾳ πτωσίμοις 
n > 7 / / > n 
ζῆν ἀνύτει, βίου δύντος és γᾶν. 


PI 


Agamemnon. 53 


‘Which for men falling with a deadly wound end their 
existence, the life-blood sinking into the ground.’ For 
ἀνύτω with infin. cf. Pers, 721. ξυνανύτει of the MSS. 
not elsewhere found. 


1133 κακῶν yap δόλοι 
πολυεπεῖς τέχναν θεσπιῳδὸν 
φόβον φέρουσιν μαθεῖν. 
‘The wordy deceits of the wicked catise us to shun know- 
ledge of the thespiodic art.’ 


1137 τὸ yap ἐμὸν ἄθροον πάθος ἐπεγχέω. 
‘For my collective griefs I pour out one upon another.’ 


Conject. 1164: πέπληγμαι δ᾽ ὑπαὶ δήγματι φοινίῳ. 
Sucaryh τεύχεις μινυρὰ θρεομένα 
θραύματ᾽ ἐμοὶ κλύειν. 

‘ Wretched are the snatches—broken fragments of song— 

that thou makest for me to hear.’ Cf. Th. 835 érevéa 

τύμβῳ μέλος, Ag. 751 λόγος τέτυκται. 


1172 ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἔθειραν ὡς τάχ᾽ ἐν πέδῳ βαλῶ. 
‘But I, how soon shall I cast my hair upon the ground 
(how soon shall my head be brought low) !’ 


1180 λαμπροῦ δ᾽ ἔοικεν ἡλίου πρὸς ἀντολὰς 
πνοή τις ἥξειν ὥστε κύματος δίκην 
κλύζειν πρὸς ἀγὰς τοῦδε πήματος πολὺ 
μεῖζον" 
‘At sunrise, it seems, a swift rush of events will come—.’ 
The sunrise though past is only just past. [ἀγάς Η. L. 
Ahrens, ἥξειν Theodore Heyse. | 


1215 ὑπ᾽ αὖ pe δεινὸς ὀρθομαντείας πόνος 
στροβεῖ, ταράσσων φροιμίοις ἀφροιμίοις. 


54 Agamemnon. 
1252 % κάρτ ἄκρον παρεσκόπεις χρησμῶν ἐμῶν. 


1264 καὶ μὴν ἀπαγγέλλειν ἐπίσταμαι φάτιν. 
‘Yet surely I know how to deliver the prophetic word.’ 


1267 ἴτ᾽ ἐς φθόρον πεσόντα xy, ἔθος ἀμείψομαι. 


1916 οὔτοι δυσοίζω, θάμνον ὡς ὄρνις φοβῶν 
ἄλλως" 
‘Scaring you, as a bird the whole brake, vainly.’ 


1822 ἅπαξ ἔτ᾽ εἰπεῖν ἄρσενα θρῆνον θέλω 
ἐμὸν τὸν αὐτῆς" 
The swan’s song. 


1340 ποινὰς θανάτων γέννᾳ πικρανεῖ, 
’ x 3 bd 
Tis ἂν οὐκ εὔξαιτο κτλ. 


Interpretation vv. 1358-59 : 

οὐκ οἶδα βουλῆς ἥστινος τυχὼν λέγω. 

τοῦ δρῶντός ἐστι καὶ τὸ βουλεῦσαι πέρι. 
1) ‘I cannot advise. It is matter for action, and consul- 
tation may lie over (περίεστι), or ‘is superfluous.’ Or. 
2) ‘It is time to consult concerning the doer of the deed, 
i. 6. his apprehension.’ This opinion is shared in by the 
next speaker since certainly ‘they cannot with their words 
bring to life again the dead man.’ [1) anticipated (?) by 
Birklein, Hntwickelungsgeschichte des Substantivierten In- 
Jinitivs, p. 16, 1888. ] 


13874 πῶς γάρ τις ἐχθροῖς ἐχθρὰ πορσύνων φίλοις 
δοκοῦσιν οὐκ ἂν πημονὴν ἀρκύστατον 
φράξειεν ὕψος κρεῖσσον ἐκπηδήματος ; 

1428 λίπος ἐπ᾽ ὀμμάτων αἵματος éumpetrés: 
ἀτίετόν σε χρὴ στερομέναν φίλων 
τύμμα τύμματι τῖσαι. 


Agamemnon. 55 


ἔτι of the common reading would suggest the distant 
future. But the chorus threatens prompt disgrace and 
exile. [Wellauer’s strophic verse corresponding to 1429 
is: ἀπέδικες, ἀπέταμες: ἀπόπολις δ᾽ ἔσῃ. 


1448 φεῦ, τίς ἂν ἐν τάχει, μὴ περιώδυνος, 

μηδὲ δεμνιοτήρης, 

μόρος τὸν “Αἰδου φέρον σύνευνόν 

μοί γ᾽ ἀτέλευτον ὕπνον, κτλ. ; 
‘O quickly may some fate painless, not lingering, bring 
that sleep of Hades (to be) endless companion of my 
couch—.’ The common text μόλοι τὸν ἀεὶ φέρουσ᾽ ἐν 
ἡμῖν μοῖρ᾽ is plainly corrupt. Witness ἀεί and ἀτέλευτον, 
φέρουσ᾽ ἐν ἡμῖν, and confused inversion not to be paral- 
leled in Aeschylus, 


1458 νῦν δὲ τελείαν θυσίαν παρὰ τοῖς στρ. 
ὀλλυμένοισιν ἐπανθίσατ᾽ αἷμ᾽ ἄνυπτον, 
ἥτις ἦν τότ᾽ ἐν δόμοις 
ἔρις ἐρίδματος ἀνδρὸς οἰζύς. 

‘ And now a final sacrifice (one that completes the number), 
by the side of those who perished under Troy, she crowns 
with blood inexpiable.’ 


1547 τίς δ᾽ ἐπιτύμβιος αἷνον ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ θείῳ ἀντ. 
σὺν δάκρυσιν ἰαλτὸν ἐν 
> / n ,ὔ 
ἀλαθείᾳ φρενῶν πονήσει ; 
ἐαλτόν ‘shot forth, ejaculated.’ 


1467 ὀξύστομον ἄλγος ἔπραξεν. 


56 Agamemnon. 


1481 ἢ μέγαν οἰκετικὸν 
δαίμον, ἀρὰν βαρύμηνιν αἰνεῖς 


1498 μηδ᾽ ἐπιλήθῃς 
᾿Αγαμεμνονίαν εἶναί μ᾽’ ἄλοχον. 
‘Do not forget (as often as you boast of calling me to 
account for my deeds) that—.’ 


1507 πατρόθεν δὲ συλλή- 
πτωρ γένοιτ ἂν ἀλάστωρ" 
βιάζεται δ᾽ ὁμοσπόροις ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων 
μέλας "Αρης. ὁ πόδα δ᾽ ἑκὼν προβαίνων 
πάχναν κουροβόρῳ παρέξει. 
Sense: No female can play the part you lay claim to. 
A descendant on the male side may become an assistant 
alastor ; for black Mars is determined by the course of 
the stream of blood-descent. But he who of his own 
accord advances his foot, taking up the part of alastor as 
Klytemnestra does, will give his gore to Mars the youth- 
devourer. Nemesis descends to those of the blood of the 
original offender (ὁμοσπόροις). 


15385 Δίκα δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλο πρᾶγμα φάσγανον βλάβας 
πρὸς ἄλλαις θηγάναισι Telper. — 
‘Justice upon various whetstones sharpens the sword of 
hurt for various deeds.’ 


1574 βαιὸν ἐχούσῃ μοι πᾶν ἀποχρῆν 
The μοί was first dropped or forgotten, then being obvi- 
ously needed was added erroneously after ἀποχρῆν. 


Choephoroe. : 57 


1589 τὸ μὴ θανὼν πατρῷον αἱμάξαι πέδον. 
αὐτὸν ξἕενίσας τοῦδε δύσθεος πατὴρ 
᾿Ατρεὺς προθύμως μᾶλλον ἢ φίλως, κτλ. 
The proper distribution of the adverbs requires a verb in 
v. 1590. If the asyndeton be objectionable, read ὃν δ᾽ οὖν 
Eevioas. 


1594 τὰ μὲν ποδήρη καὶ χερῶν ἄκρους κτένας 
ἔκρυπτ᾽ ἄνωθεν ἄνθρακας καθειμένος. 
ἄσημα δ᾽ οὖν ὅδ᾽ αὐτίκ᾽ ἀγνοίᾳ λαβὼν κτλ. 


1069 εἰ δέ τοι μόχθων γένοιτό τις λύσις γ, 
ἐχοίμεθα. 
Cf. Soph. Tr. 1170 ἔφασκε μόχθων... λύσιν τελεῖσθαι. 





CHOEPHOROE. 





47 τί yap λυγρὸν πεσόντος αἵματος πέρα; 


‘For what dark thing is beyond shed blood ?’ 


61 ῥοπὴ δ᾽ ἐπισκοτεῖ Δίκας 

ταχεῖα τοὺς μὲν ἐν φάει" 

τὰ δ᾽ ἐν μεταιχμίῳ σκότου 

μένει χρονίζοντα βραχύ. 
χρονίζοντα βραχύ (an oxymoron—‘ they last briefly, or, 
awhile’) explains both readings, ἄχη and βρύει; the 
former a paleographic error, the latter a marginal inter- 
pretation. With the vulgate ἐπισκοπεῖ, ταχεῖα is absurd. 
[ἐπισκοτεῖ τοῖς μὲν ἐν φάει O. Miller. | 


58 Choephoroe. 


66 δι’ αἵματ᾽ ἐκποθένθ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονὸς τροφοῦ στρ. 
χυτὸς φόνος πέπηγεν, οὗ διαρροὰς 
δι᾿ ἄγος "Ata διαιφέρει Antispast and 2 lamb. 
τοῖς αἰτίοις πανεργέτας νόσῳ Bpveu. 

71 θιγόντι δ᾽ οὔτι νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων ἀντ. 
ἄκος, πόροι τε πάντες ἐκ μιᾶς ὁδοῦ 
βαίνοντες τοῖν χεροῖν μύσος 
φόνου καθαίρειν εἰσίοιεν ἂν μάταν. 

‘By reason of Earth’s absorbing the blood-drops, has the 
shed fluid been coagulated (and so not dispersed and lost), 
the sanies of which clot Até has distributed on account of 
their pollution to the guilty, causing them to be filled 
with disease. —For χυτὸς φόνος cf. Eum. 682 αἵματος 
χυτοῦ. πανεργέτας is to be found in Ag. 1486. Against 
the common reading παναρκέτας it is to be noted that all 
the compounds of dpxéw are like αὐταρκής. For the 
signif. of διαιφέρει, see the scholiast’s διασπαράσσει. 
The vulgate dvadyys in v. 68 is not used by the drama- 
tists ; and τίτας in v. 67 is a vow nihili. 


75. ἐμοὶ δὲ σιωπή. ἀνάγκαν yap ἀμφυπτόλεις θεοὶ 
προσήνεγκαν. 


79 δίκαια καὶ τὰ μὴ δίκαια 

πρέποντ᾽ ἀρχαῖς βίου 
βίᾳ φερομένην αἰνέσαι, πικρὸν φρενῶν 
στύγος κρατούσην. 

180 λέγω, καλοῦσα πάτερ᾽ ἐποίκτιρόν T ἐμὲ 

, 09 , a > / / 
φίλον tT ‘Opéornv: πῶς avn Eopev δόμοις ; 
‘How shall we return—?’ 


146 ταῦτ᾽ ἐν μέσῳ τίθημι, Tats κακαῖς ἀραῖς 
κείνων λέγουσα τήνδε τὴν κακὴν ἀράν. 


Choephoroe: 59 


λέγουσα = ἀντιλέγουσα ‘in reply to their evil curses,’ an 
immediate application οὖν. 124 τὸν ἐχθρὸν ἀνταμείβεσθαι 
κακοῖς. 


197 ἀλλ᾽ εὖ σάφ᾽ ἣν ἢ τόνδ᾽ ἀποπτύσαι πλόκον, 
εἴπερ γ᾽ am ἐχθροῦ κρατὸς ἣν τετμημένος, 
ἢ ξυγγενὴς ὡς hye συμπενθεῖν ἐμοί 
‘O that I knew whether ... ., or (knew) that some kins- 
man brought it to grieve with mé’—a change of con- 
struction from accus. with infin. to a @s-clause. The 
conjunctions-7 . . . ἤ are thus in their proper places. 


224 ὡς ὄντ᾽ ᾿Ορέστην taicd ἐγώ σε προυννέπω ; 
προυννέπω has thus its proper sense, ‘to openly declare, 
to announce.’ 


232 σπάθης τε πληγάς" οἶσθα θηρίων γραφήν ; 


298 ὦ τερπνὸν ὄμμα τέσσαρας μοίρας ἔχον 
ἐμοί. προσαυδῶ δ᾽ εἰς ἀνάγκας ἃς ἔχεις" 
“1 address you according to the ties of relationship which 
you hold to me.’ 


291 καὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις οὔτε κρατῆρος μέρος 
εἶναι μετασχεῖν, οὐ φιλοσπόνδου λιβός" 
βωμῶν τ’ ἄπειρον οὐκ ἐρώμενον πατρὸς 
μονῇ δέχεσθαι, οὔτε συλλύειν τινά' 
πάντων δ᾽ ἄτιμον κἄφιλον θνήσκειν χρόνῳ κτλ. 
‘That no father’s friend (no man beloved of his father) 
should receive him for a sojourn or lodge with him.’ 
ἐρώμενος --Ξ amicus. The last verse quoted (295) shows 
the singular to have preceded it. 


/ 
315 ὦ πάτερ aivorratep, Ti σοι 
/ x ΕΣ 
φάμενος ἢ τί ῥέξας 


60 Choephoroe. 


τύχοιμ᾽ ἀνέκαθεν οὐρίσας ; 
ἔνθα σ᾽ ἔχουσιν εὐναί, 
/ ,ὕ > 7 ΄ὕ ΄ ee eg 

σκότῳ φάος ἰσόμοιρον, χάριτές θ᾽ ὁμοίως. 

, / 3 \ ἢ 
κέκληται yoos εὐκλεὴς κτλ. 
, By εὐναί is not meant the tomb, but the place of rest in 
Hades. ‘ Where you repose, darkness and light—’ 


343 παίων μελάθροις ἐν βασιλείοις 
νῴῶν κρᾶτα φίλον κομίσειεν. 
νῷν i. e. the chorus (speaking in the sing.) and Electra. 


363 μηδ᾽ ὑπὸ Τροίας ὡς 

τείχεσι φθίμενος, πάτερ, 

μετ᾽ ἄλλων δουρικμῆτι λαῷ 

παρὰ Σκαμάνδρου πόρον ἐτέθαψο: 

πάρος δ᾽ ἱκετεύω κτανόντας νιν οὕτως δαμῆναι 

κτλ. 

‘Not that thou hadst been buried under Troy ... but 
rather I pray that....’ [The strophic verse correspond- 
ing to πάρος δ᾽ ἱκετεύω κτλ.. is, in Wellauer’s text, τέκνων 
τε κελεύθοις ἐπιστρεπτὸν αἰῶνα KTicaas. | 


8514 μείζονα φωνεῖς" ὀδύναι σοι γάρ. 
Sense of the passage: ‘Precious are these words (her wish 
just expressed for the first time to see her mother punished), 
for they are pain to thee,’ i. e. words whose sincerity appears 
by the pain which their utterance costs. 


384 χειρί, τοκεῦσι δ᾽ ὅμως τέλος τίθει. 
Sense from v. 382: ‘ Zeus though thou sendest late venge- 
ance... ., yet for my parents—.’ It is this specific 
declaration from Electra, that she wishes to see her mother 
punished, that emboldens the chorus to utter the language 


Choephoroe. 61 
of vv. 385-392. ['The antist. to v. 384 is: κλῦτε δὲ τὰ 


χθονίων τετιμέναι.] 


a 


406 ἴδετε πολυκρατεῖς ye φθιμένων ἀράς 
Bi-dochm. 


Antistr. v. 419: πάθομεν ἄχεα πρός ye τῶν τεκομένων. 


412 καὶ τότε μὲν δύσελπις .. 
σπλάγχνα τέ μοι κέλαινοῦ- 
ται πρὸς ἔπος κλυούσῃ. 
ὅταν δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ κτλ. 
τέ should stand, for τότε μέν finds its contrast in ὅταν δέ, 
not sooner. 


439 ἐμασχαλίσθη δ᾽ ὅσον τόδ᾽ εἶδος" 
ἔπρασσε δ᾽ ἅπέρ νιν, ὧδε θάπτει, 
μόρον στέγειν μωμένα 
ἄφερτον αἰῶνι σῷ. 
For εἶδος used of the human form, see Th. 507 οὔτ᾽ εἶδος 
οὔτε θυμὸν οὔθ᾽ ὅπλων σχέσιν μωμητός. V. 441 refers 
to the hasty burial without due rites. 


454 τὰ δ᾽ ad σὺν ὀργᾷ μάθοις 


470 ἰὼ δυσκατάπαυστον ἄλγος, 
δώμασιν ἔμμοτον. 
τῶν δ᾽ ἄκος οὐδ am ἄλλων 
ἔκτοθεν, ἀλλ᾽ amr αὐτῶν 
διωθεῖν ἔριν αἱματηράν. 


502 οἴκτιρε θῆλυν ἄρσενα σταθμῶν γόνον. 
σταθμῶν is a pte. ‘Restoring to its σταθμά the male 


progeny.’ 


62 Choephoroe. 


532 καὶ πῶς ἄτρωτον; ἣ χάριν γ᾽ ἀποστυγεῖ; 
Sense: ‘But how was the breast unwounded? Did the 
creature reject the favor offered? No, it sucked with 
such violence as to draw blood.’ This answer in v. 533 
shows v. 532 must form a transition from Klytemnestra 
as nominative to the dragon as nominative. Further, 
οὗθαρ is a late and coarse word for a woman's breast— 
especially unbecoming in the mouth of a son. 


586 πολλοὶ δ᾽ ἀνῆλθον, ἐκτυφλωθέντες σκότῳ, 
λαμπτῆρά T ἀνδαίουσι δεσποίνης χάριν, 
πέμπει T ἔπειτα κτλ. 

‘Many rush up blinded by the darkness and light a lamp 
for the queen.’ One feeble lamp may be blinded by the 
darkness, not many, as the common reading has it. 


585 πολλὰ μὲν ya τρέφει 
δεινά, κάρτα δυσμαχῆ. 
κάρτα abbreviated into the καί of the Med. 


602 ἴστω 8, ὅστις οὐχ ὑπόπτερος 

φροντίσιν, δύας 

τὰς ἁ παιδολυ- 

μὰς τάλαινα Θεστιὰς μήσατο 

πυρδαῆ τιν᾽ ἐκ προνοί- 

ας καταίθουσα παιδὸς δίφυιον 

δαλὸν ἥλικ᾽ κτλ. 
‘Let him not swift in thought (the slow man who needs to 
be instructed) know the miseries which Althaea planned, 
when she wittingly consumed the halfburnt twin brand 
of her son, of equal age with him—.’ πυρδαής is ‘ fire- 
burnt, scorched.’ Cf. ἡμιδαής. For δίφυιος cf. Ag. 1469. 


Choephoroe. 63 


623 ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἐπεμνασάμαν ἀμειλίχων 
/ ΝΜ \ \ / 
πόνων, ἄκρατος δὲ δυσφιλὲς γαμή- 
λευμ᾽ ἀπεύχετον δόμοις 
γυναικόβουλοί τε μήτιδες φρενῶν κτλ. 
‘Since I have made mention of cruel evils, an unmixed 
evil is—.’ 


641 τί δὴ θέμις yap ov στρ. 
λὰξ πέδοι πατουμένου 
τοῦ πᾶν Διὸς σέβας παρεκβάντος οὐ 
θεμιστῶς; 
Sense: ‘ For what justice is there when the transgressor 
is not trodden under foot?’ 


648 τέκνον δ᾽ ἐπεισφέρει δόμοισιν ὥσθ᾽ ἀντ. 
αἱμάτων παλαιτέρων κτλ. 


684 εἴτ᾽ οὖν μέτοικον, ἔς τε γᾶν ἀείξενον 
690 οὐκ οἶδα, τῇδ᾽ οἰκοῦντα δ᾽ εἰκὸς εἰδέναι. 


693 ΚΛ. ὡς πόλλ᾽ ὄπωπα κἀκποδὼν εὖ κείμενα 
τόξοις πρόσωθεν εὐσκόποις χειρούμενα. 
φίλων ἀποψιλοῖς με κτλ. 

Vv. θ99--94 are a natural interjection, prefacing the special 
case καὶ viv Ορέστης. If ἐπωπᾷς be read, the succeed- 
ing καί is needless, 


728 χθόνιόν θ᾽ Ἑρμῆν κατὰ τὴν εὐχὴν 
τοῖσδ᾽ ἐφοδεῦσαι κτλ. 


64 Choephoroe. 


740 δόμοις δὲ τοῖσδε πᾶν κακῶς ἔχει 


φήμης ὑφ᾽ ἧς ἤγγειλαν οἱ ξένοι τορῶς. 
ἃ \ γ΄ 2 a > fal / 
ἣν δὴ κλύων ἐκεῖνος εὐφρανεῖ νόον 


750 ὃν ἐξέθρεψα μητρόθεν δεδεγμένη. 
οὗ νυκτυπλάγκτων ὀρθίων κελευμάτων'" 
V. 751 is exclamatory. Cf. Soph. El. 1148 οὔμοι τάλαινα 
τῆς ἐμῆς πάλαι τροφῆς | ἀνωφελήτου, evidently an imita- 
tion of Aeschylus. 


Conject. 770: (if the MSS. are to be departed from at 


all) un νυν σὺ ταῦτ᾽ ἄγγελλε δεσπότῃ στέγης" 


1889 νῦν παραιτουμένᾳ μοι, πάτερ στρ. 
Ζεῦ θεῶν ᾿Ολυμπίων 
δὸς τύχας" τεῦχέ μοι κυρίους 
τὰ σώφρον᾽ εὖ μαιομένους ἰδεῖν. 
Vv. 785-86: ‘Give me good fortune. Make me to see 
my masters wisely seeking the prudent way.’ This, any- 
how, is what the passage must say. [ But this construction 
of τεύχω is not to be found in Greek. | 


794 ἴσθι δ᾽ ἀνδρὸς φίλου πῶλον εὗ-͵ ἀντ. 
νιν ζυγέντ᾽ ἐν ἅρμασιν 
πημάτων" ἐν δρόμῳ προστίθει 
μέτρον. τοῖον σῳζόμενον ῥυθμὸν 
τοῦτ᾽ ἴδοι δάπεδον 
νομίμων βημάτων ὄρεγμα. 
τοῖον with the first syllable measured short. ὄρεγμα in 
apposition to ῥυθμόν. 


806 τὸ δὲ καλῶς εὐκταῖον. ὦ μέγα ναίων 
4 5 \ > fh , 2 / 
στόμιον, εὖ δὸς ἀΐειν δόμον ἀνδρός 
‘Grant that the house hear its lord.’ 


Choephoroe. 65 


819 Kat’ ἀοιδὰν πλουσίων στρ. 
δωμάτων. λυτήριον 
δῆλυν οὐριοστάταν ὁμοῦ τε ἐρεκτὸν 
γοατὰν νόμον 
μεθήσει πόλις. ! ha εν 
825 τὰ δ᾽ εὖ. ᾿μοιγ᾽ ἐμὸν 
κέρδος ἀέξεται, 





. 
“ ᾿] 
τᾶσδ᾽ ἄτας ἀποστατοὔσας φίλων κτλ. 


831 Περσέως τῴῷδ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶν ἀντ. 

καρδίαν σχέθων, πάτερ (vel κρέων), 

τοῖς θ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονὸς φίλοισι τοῖς T ἄνωθεν 

προπράσσων χάριν, 

πρὸς ὀργαῖς λυπραῖς 

τιθεὶς φοινίαν 

"Arav ἔνδοθεν 

τὴν αἴτιον, ἄναξ, ἀπόλλυ μόρῳ. 
Sense of the antistr. (addressed to Agamemnon): ‘And 
do thou, Ruler, keeping firm the Perseus-heart in his 
breast (i. e. Orestes’ breast), and gratifying your friends 
in Hades and those above, adding to his dark passions a 
deadly Até within, slay the guilty one.”—It seems im- 
possible that after the language of vv. 827-830 the chorus 
should go over again the same injunctions to Orestes. It 
would be a wretclied tautology. For the view that the 
final antistrophe is addressed to Agamemnon, compare 
the addresses to Darius in the Persae, also in this play 
the prayers to Agam. by Electra and Orestes. 


841 καὶ τόδ᾽ ἀμφέρειν δόμοις 
/ > KX ” \ \ 
γένοιτ ἂν ἄχθος δειματοσταγὲς φανὲν 
τῷ πρόσθεν ἑλκαίνοντι καὶ δεδηγμένῳ. 


5 


66 Eumenides. 


953 τῇπερ ὁ Λοξίας ὁ ἸΠαρνάσσιος 
μέγαν ἔχων μυχὸν χθονὸς ἐπωρθία- 
Eev ἀδόλως, δολίων 
βλαπτόμενον χρόνῳ σθένος ἀποίχεται. 
Sense: Just as Apollo announced, so the strength of the 
deceivers weakened by time departs. 


969 τύχᾳ δ᾽ εὐπροσώπῳ κεῖται TO πᾶν' 
ἄδικα θρεομένοις 
μετοίκοις δόμοι πεσοῦνται πάλιν. 
‘The house will fall (as in the game of dice) to—’ 
[κεῖται Boissonade. | 


1018 οὔτις μερόπων ἀσινῆ βίοτον 
διὰ πάντ᾽ ἀτρεμὴς διαμείψει" 


1041 καὶ μαρτυρεῖν μ᾽ οὐ νηλεῶς ὀρθοῦν κακά. 


1067 πνεύσας ἀγρίως ἐτελέσθη. 





EUMENIDES. 





42 καὶ νεοσπαδὲς Eidos. 
ἔχει T ἐλάας ὑψιυγέννητον κλάδον 


\ a ς 7 A \ lA CLs ia 
67 καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾷς 
ὕπνῳ, πεσοῦσαι δ᾽ αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι 
Γαίας παλαιαὶ παῖδες 
See Hes. Theog. 185 for the descent of the Erinyes from 
Gaia. 


103 ὅρα δὲ πληγὰς τάσδε καρδίας ἔσω. 


Humenides. 67 


218 ἢἣ κάρτ᾽ ἄτιμα, καὶ παρ᾽ οὐδὲν ὅρκια 
Ἥρας τελείας καὶ Διὸς πιστώματα. 
ὅρκια I prefer as a substantive, though it does well as an 
adjective. 


Conject. 231: μέτειμι τόνδε φῶτ᾽ ἐκεῖ κυνηγέτις. 
ἐκεῖ for ἐκεῖσε, i. 6. πὰρ Διὸς θρόνους, v. 229; as in 
Soph. O. C. 1019 ὁδοῦ κατάρχεω τῆς ἐκεῖ. 


255 ὅρα ὅρα μάλ᾽ αὖ 
λεῦσσε πᾶν μὴ λάθῃ φύγδα βὰς 


334 τοῦτο γὰρ λάχος διανταία 
Μοῖρ᾽ ἐπέκλωσ᾽ ἔμ᾽ ἐμπέδως ἔχειν, θνατῶν 
οἷς ἐν αὐτουργίαις ξυμπέσω, σὺν ματαίῳ 
τῷδ᾽ ὁμαρτεῖν 
355 ὅταν “Apns 
τιθασὸν ὃν φίλον ἕλῃ. 
‘When Mars (the armed man) slays his unarmed (quiet) 
friend.’ The penalties denounced are surely not pointed 
at civic broils, in which we are generally unable to con- 
vict either party. 


372 ἅμα yap οὖν ἁλομένα 
ἀνέκαθεν βαρυπεσῆ 
, \ > 7 
καταφέρω ποδὸς ἀκμάν, 
δ’ τ νος ὧν / 
σφαλέρ᾽ ὅπως τανυδρόμοις 
κῶλα δυσφόρως ταθῇ. 
378 τοῖον ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ κνέφας μυσαρῷ πεπόταται, 
\ A 3 \ \ f 
καὶ δνοφερά τις ἀχλὺς κατὰ δώματος 
ἄηται πολύστονος φάτις. 


414 πρόσω δικαίων οὐδ᾽ ἐπιστατεῖ θέμις. 
ἠδέ of the vulgate Aeschylus uses only to conjoin pairs of 


68 Eumenides. 


things or persons, never to connect two verbs. For the 
correction of Pers. 859, see above. 


429 ἀλλ᾽ ὅρκον ov δέξαιτ᾽ ἄν, ὃν δοῦναι θέμις. 
θέλει of the MSS. arose from θέλεις in the next verse. 


478 χώρᾳ μεταῦθις ἰὸς ἐκ φρονημάτων 
7 \ + > n / 
πέδοι πεσὼν ἄφερτον ἀλδανεῖ νόσον. 


488 φανῶ, δικαστὰς ὁρκίους αἱρουμένη, 
θεσμόν, τὸν εἰς ἅπαντ᾽ ἐγὼ θήσω χρόνον. 

_ [Dated 1884—not therefore anticipated by Wecklein, 

1888.] 


516 τίς δέ που τὸ δεινὸν αὖ 

καὶ φρενῶν ἐπίσκοπον 

δειμανεῖ καθήμενον, 

ξυμφέρει σωφρονεῖν ὑποστένων ; 

τίς δὲ μὴ τάδ᾽ ἐν φάει 

καρδίας ἀνατρέφων κτλ: 
‘Who will anywhere again fear the supernatural and the 
seated judge of souls, whispering to himself ‘it behooves 
one to be virtuous’? And who, not openly (confessedly) 
cherishing this belief in heart,—.’ ἐν φάει καρδίας 
opposed to secrecy of heart. 


553 τὸν ἀντίτολμον δέ φαμι παρβάταν 
τιθέντα πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ κτλ. 


565 ὥλετ᾽ ἄκλαυτος οὕτως. 
Cf. Th. 1066 γένος ὠλέσατε πρέμνοθεν οὕτως. 


576 καὶ μαρτυρήσων ἦλθον---ἔστι γὰρ δυοῖν 
ἱκέτης ὅδ᾽ ἁνήρ κτλ. 
δυοῖν of both Apollo and Athena. This emendation justi- 
fies the emphasis of ἐμῶν in v. 578. [This emend., to 


Eumenides. 69 


judge from the page upon which it is written, must have 
been written many years ago and may perhaps claim 
priority over Heyse, 1884. | 


631 ἀπὸ στρατείας γάρ νιν ἀμπεπλευκότα 
τὰ πλεῖστ᾽ ὁμαίμον᾽ εὔφροσιν δεδεγμένον 
δροίτην, περῶντα λουτρὰ κἀπὶ τέρματα 
φᾶρος παρεσκήνωσεν. 
‘Him having returned from the expedition and having 
accepted the bath for the most part associated with pleasure, 
she—.’ παρεσκήνωσεν is construed with two accusatives 
on analogy of the verbs of clothing. The baths were 
probably marble, and set in the floor, the one for cold 
water being last in the series. This Agamemnon is 
represented as having just received (ἐπὶ τέρματα). 
[ἀμπεπλευκότα is also Heyse’s conject. | 


645 πέδας μὲν εἰ δήσειεν, ἔστι τοῦδ᾽ ἄκος 
δήσειεν 80. Ζεύς. 


121 σύ τοι παλαιὰς δαίμονας καταφθίσας 
καὶ νῦν παρηπάτησας ἀρχαίας θεάς. 


189 στενάζω ; τί ῥέξω; apdpat δύσοιστα 
πολίταις παθεῖν ; 
Cf. Soph. O. T. 251 ἐπεύχομαι. ... παθεῖν ἅπερ 


n δ ᾽ ,ὔ Srey 
TOLO APTLWS NPATALNY. ° 


837 ἐμὲ παθεῖν τε τάδε 
be / / n 3 a 
ἐμὲ παλαιόφρονα, κατά Te γᾶν οἰκεῖν + Dochm. 
ἀτίετον μύσος. 


861 μήτ᾽ ἐξ ἐνούσης καρδίας ἀλεκτόρων 
ἐν τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἀστοῖσιν ἱδρύσης "Αρὴη 
The thought is: This contentious temper is native to the 


70 _ Bumenides. 


Athenians; but do you not, =“ it in them, make it 
the cause of intestine war. 


864 θυραῖος ἔστω πόλεμος ὁμόλογος παρών 
That is, foreign war entered into by all as of one mind. 
[For two resolutions in one trimeter, cf. Pers. 284, Th. 
593, Cho. 89, Ag. 1584.] 


934 τὰ yap ἐκ προτέρων ἀμπλακιῶν νιν 
πρὸς τάσδ᾽ ἀπάγει 
960 ἀνδροτυχεῖς βιότους δότε, κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες, 
θεαί, τῶν Μοιρῶν 
ματροκασιγνῆται. 
The words which follow seem applicable only to the Eu- 
menides, celebrating their new honors. We must suppose 
them addressing each other. 


965 παντὶ χρόνῳ δ᾽ ἐπιβριθεῖς 
ἐκδίκοις ὁμιλίαις 
ἐπιβριθεῖς refers to their primitive function. ὁμιλίαις is 
the object, depending upon ἐπί in composition. 


988 ἁγνὼ φρονοῦσι γλώσσης ἀγαθῆς 
ο΄ ὁδὸν εὑρίσκεις. 


1037 τιμὰς καὶ θυσίας περίσεπται ἔχοιτε 


Anap. 


1040 ἵλαοι κραδίαν εὔφρονες ἐς γᾶν στρ. 
δεῦρ᾽ ite σεμναὶ θεαὶ πυριδάπτῳ. 
λαμπάδι τερπόμεναι. καθ᾽ ὁδὸν δ᾽ 
ὀλολύξατε νῦν ἐπὶ μολπαῖς. 
1044 σπονδαῖς στεροπὰν ἐνθάδ᾽ ἐνοικῶν ἀντ. 
Παλλάδος ἀστοῖς Ζεὺς προτιάπτει 
ὥτινι Μοῖρά γε συγκατέβα. 
ὀλολύξατε νῦν ἐπὶ μολπαῖς. 


Eumenides. 


71 


Antistr.: ‘To this treaty Jove dwelling here with the 
people of Pallas imparts his lightning as sanction.’ [θεαί 


in vy. 1041 anticipated by Hartung. | 





The following emendations by Mr. Rogers prove to 
have been already made by the various scholars named : 


147 
354 
503 
629 
732 
871 
924 


V. 


95 
338 
944 
946 
963 


SUPPLIANTS. 

ap’ adds M. Schmidt 

κλάδοις σε Wordsworth 

ἐφ᾽ ἑστίαν Burgess 

τέρμονα πέμπων Hartung 

κυρίᾳ H. Voss_ 

ἀγρίαις Bamberger 

τάσδε μ᾽ ἐξαιρήσεται Bois- 
sonade. 


PERSIANS. 
πήματος Francken 
μὲν οὖν Wakefield 
πανδυρτός Hermann 
πενθητὴρ ὥς Paley. 
ἀγαῖς Wecklein. 


SEVEN AGAINST THEBES. 


227 
239 


332 


400 
1087 


76 
107 
125 
131 
179 


ἀμηχανοῦντ᾽ Heimsoeth 

Order of words Lach- 
mann 

τὶς Hermann. 


PROMETHEUS. 


ἀδινόν Weil 
παραδεικνυμένα Hartung. 


AGAMEMNON., 

. τότε Klausen 
αἰνεῖν Jacobs 

apxas Rauchenstein 
apd Pleitner 

ἀνθ᾽ ὕπνου" Emperius 


ὅτε, 





Υ. 


181 
250 
367 
612 
730 
1147 
1261 


1325 
1392 
1395 
1447 
1657 


1658 


425 


613 
698 


738 


137 
138 
188 


220 
435 
685 
946 


βεβαίως Legrand 

τοῖς μὲν πατοῦσι Matthiae 

ἔχοις ἄν Karsten 

χαλκὸς βαφάς Auratus 

ἄγραισιν Bamberger. 

περίβαλον Blomfield 

ἐνθεῖσ᾽ ἐν κύτει Scaliger, 
Enger and others. 

ἐχθροὺς φονεῖς re Schuetz 

γαῖα Casaubon 

τοιῷδ᾽ Schneidewin 

εὔνους Butler 

στείχετ᾽ αἰδοῖοι γέροντες 
Η. L. Ahrens , 

ἄκαιρον Musgrave. 


CHOEPHOROE, 
ἄδην Bamberger 
δή τις Metzger 
προδοῦσαν Pauw 
ἧτο Bamberger 
σκυθρωπός Heyse. 


EUMENIDES. 

ὧδ᾽ Scaliger 

ἀτμόν Hermann 

κακῶν τε xAodvis Casau- 
bon 

μηδ᾽ ἕπεσθαι Schwenk 

ἐπαξίως Boissonade 

ὁρᾶτε L. Schmidt 

γόνον" λέως Rauchenstein. 


72 Appendix. 


To the above list must be added those already duly 
credited in the body of the work, and there printed 
because in close context with other emendations in which 
Mr. Rogers had not been anticipated. 





APPENDIX. 





Kur. Hipp. 545 ff. 


τὰν μὲν Οἰχαλίᾳ 

πῶλον ἄξυγα, λέκτρων 

ba \ \ \ + y 

ἄνανδρον τὸ πρὶν Kal ἄνυμφον, οἴκων 

7 ’ 3 ’ > 7 

ζεύξασ᾽ am εἰρεσίας κτλ. 
‘Releasing her from the routine service of the house.’ 
εἰρεσία = ὑπηρεσία. 

ΞΌΡΗ. Philoct. 


678° κατ᾽ ἄμπυκα δέσμιον ὅν, δρομάδ᾽ ὥς, ἔβαλεν 
‘Whom he cast bound on the wheel as a whirling object.’ 
In the antistr. v. 695 read ἀποκλαύσειεν αἱματηρός. 


va Lee 
850 κεῖνο λάθρα, κεῖνό μοι σήμηνον" 
3 a / ' 
ἐξιδοῦ τί πράξεις. 
οἶσθα γὰρ ὧν αὐδῶμαι, 
εἰ ταύταν τούτων γνώμαν ἴσχεις, 
μάλα τοι ἄπορα πυκινοῖς ἐνιδεῖν, πιθοῦ. 


1087 ὦ πληρέστατον αὔλιον 
λύπας: ὡς ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ τάλαν' 
τί ToT αὖ μοι τὸ κατ᾽ apap 
ἔσται; ποῦ ποτε τεύξομαι 


1095 


Appendix. . 73 


σιτονόμου μέλεος πόθεν ἐλπίδος ; 
Μ᾽ »2 bla 
εἴθ᾽ αἰθέρος ἄνω 
/ > / \ , 
πτωκάδας ὀξυτόνου διὰ πνεύματος 
ἁλωσίμους ἔτ᾽ εἶχον (vel ἔσχον). 


σύ τοι κατηξίω- στρ. 
σας" τάδε βαρύποτμ᾽ οὐκ-- Dochm. 
ἄλλοθεν ἔρχεται, οὐδ᾽ ἀπὸ μείζονος. 


Dactyl. 
@ f/f \ A 
εὖτε γε παρὸν φρονῆσαι 
λῴονος ἐκ δαίμονος εἵλου τὸ κάκιον ἄλλως. 


τάδε βαρύποτμα, since βαρύποτμος applied to Philoct. 
contradicts the drift of the poet. ἔρχεται accounts for the 
reading ἔχει τύχᾳ. 


1116 


1217 


1224 


/ 
πότμος σε δαιμόνων ἀντ" 
/ 
TLS οὐδὲ σέ γε δόλος κτλ. 


SopH. Oed. Col. 
Ta Tép- 


ποντα δ᾽ οὐκ ἂν ἴδοιτ᾽ ὅπου, 
“ / 7 
ὅταν βίος πλέων πέσῃ 
“Ὁ , 3 
τοῦ θέλειν" τότε δ᾽ ἐπίκουρος κτλ. 


\ a \ WA 
μὴ φῦναι Tov ἅπαντα νι- 

a / \ a 
Ka λόγον: τὸ 6,” ἐπεὶ φανῇ, 
βῆναι κεῖθεν ὅθεν περ ἥκει 

\ / e / 
πολὺ δεύτερον ὡς τάχιστα, 
ὡς, εὖτ᾽ ἂν τὸ νέον παρῇ 
κούφας ἀφροσύνας φέρον, 
τις πλαγχθῇ πολύμοχθος ἔ- 


ξω. 


ὡς πλαγχθῇ éEw = υἱέ emigret evita. παρῇ from πάρειμι. 


74 - Αρρεοπαΐω. 
[In Trach. vy. 144-5: 


\ \ Id 2 a "ἢ 
τὸ γὰρ νεάζον ἐν τοιοῖσδε βόσκεται 
χώροις ἄνατον κτλ. 


Mr. Rogers was long ago anticipated by Reiske. | 


THE GOsPEL oF St. MATTHEW, V, 21-22. 


The ordinary text is as follows: ᾿Ηκούσατε ὅτι ἐρρέθη 
τοῖς ἀρχαίοις, Οὐ φονεύσεις" ὃς δ᾽ ἂν φονεύσῃ, ἔνοχος 
ἔσται τῇ κρίσει. γὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὀργιζό- 
μενος τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὑτοῦ εἰκῆ, ἔνοχος ἔσται τῇ κρίσει" 
ὃς δ᾽ ἂν εἴπῃ τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὑτοῦ, Ῥακά, ἔνοχος ἔσται 
᾿τῷ συνεδρίῳ: ὃς δ᾽ ἂν εἴπη, Μωρέ, ἔνοχος ἔσται εἰς 
τὴν γέενναν τοῦ πυρός. The common interpretation of 
this text is very well given by Albert Barnes, Notes on the 
Gospels, vol. 1, p. 68: “The amount then of this diffieult 
and important verse is this. The Jews considered but 
one crime a violation of the sixth commandment, viz: 
actual murder, or wilful unlawful taking life. Jesus says 
that the commandment is much broader. It relates not 
only to the evternal act, but to the feelings and words. 
He specifies three forms of such violation: 1st. Unjust 
anger. 2d, Anger accompanied with an expression of 
contempt. 3d. Anger, with an expression not only of con- 
tempt, but wickedness. Among the Jews there were three 
degrees of condemnation: that by the “judgment,” the 
“council,” and the “fire of Hinnom.” Jesus says like- 
wise there shall be grades of condemnation for the different 
ways of violating the sixth commandment. Not only 
murder shall be punished by God, but anger and contempt 
shall be regarded as a violation of the law and punished 
by him according to the offence. As these offences were 


Appendiz. 75 


not actually cognizable before the Jewish Tribunals, he 
must mean that they will be punished hereafter. And all 
these expressions relate to the degrees of punishment pro- 
portionate to crime in the future world—in the world of 
justice and of woe.”—See also Wetstein ad loc.: ‘‘ Ira- 
eundus qui ad maledicta etiam leviora prorumpit, Deo 
judice, tam nocens est, quam vestro judicio is est quia 
Synedrio condemnatur ; qui vero gravioribus convitiis 
indulget, Deo judice, tam nocens est, quam is quem vos 
Deo relinquendum et aeterni ignis supplicio dignum ex- 
istimatis.” 

To the preceding interpretation and all its modifications 
there stands the capital objection that it imagines a climax 
(composed of Rash Anger—Anger with wordy abuse— 
Anger with malicious charge) where no climax really 
exists ; and to this end forges ‘usus loquendi,’ attributing 
to the words Raca and Moré significations that do not 
belong to them. They were words used lightly, much 
_ like their English equivalents, to those present as well as 
of those absent, where no anger (much less malice) was 
felt, merely as colloquial expressions of moral or intel- 
lectual dissatisfaction. Nor do they imply more than 
ὀργή, but rather less. For ὀργή does not denote slight 
anger, such as does not break forth in words.' 


'For the light use of ῥακά, see St. Chrysostom, Complete Works, 
Paris, 1836, vol. VII, p. 245, 16th Homily on Matthew: τὸ ῥακὰ 
τοῦτο οὐ μεγάλης ἐστὶν ὕβρεως ῥῆμα, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον καταφρονήσεως καὶ 
ὀλιγωρίας τινὸς τοῦ λέγοντος. Καθάπερ γὰρ ἡμεῖς ἢ οἰκέταις ἤ τισι τῶν 
καταδεεστέρων ἐπιτάττοντες λέγομεν: ἄπελθε σύ, εἰπὲ τῷ δεῖνι σύ; οὕτω 
καὶ οἱ τῇ Σύρων κεχρημένοι γλώττῃ ῥακὰ λέγουσιν, ἀντὶ τοῦ σὺ τοῦτο 
τιθέντες.--ἶδι, Jerome, Commentarii in Evang. Matthaei, ad loc. : 
“Hoe verbum proprie Hebraeorum est: Raca enim dicitur κενός, i.e. 


76 Appendiz. 


The force of this objection was felt by Lightfoot (one 
of the chief fabricators of the received exegesis); for he 
says, as quoted by Adam Clarke ad loc.: “μωρέ, thou 
fool, which, how to distinguish from Raca, which signifies 
an empty fellow, were some difficulty, but that Solomon 
is a good dictionary here for us, who takes the term 
continually for a wicked wretch and reprobate, and in 
opposition to spiritual wisdom.” 

But who could determine the force of a phrase of to- 
day by the usage of Chaucer’s time? And how can the 
language of Herod’s time be interpreted by the words 
of the time of Solomon? The truth is μωρέ and ῥακά 
are identical in force and sense. ‘There is no climax, and 
the passage should be amended thus: ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἐρρέθη 
τοῖς ἀρχαίοις, Ov φονεύσεις" ὃς δ᾽ ἂν φονεύσῃ, ἔνοχος 
ἔσται τῇ κρίσει. ᾿Εγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὀργι- 
ζόμενος τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὑτοῦ εἰκῆ, ἔνοχος ἔσται τῇ κρίσει. 
"Eppé0n τοῖς ἀρχαίοις" ὃς δ᾽ ἂν εἴπη τῷ ἀδελφῷ 
αὑτοῦ, Ῥακά, ἔνοχος ἔσται τῷ συνεδρίῳ. ᾿γὼ δὲ 
λέγω, ὃς δ᾽ ἂν εἴπῃ, Μωρέ, ἔνοχος ἔσται εἰς τὴν 
γέενναν τοῦ πυρός. 


inanis aut vacuus: quem nos possumus vulgata injuria absque cerebro 
nuncupare.”—St. Augustine, De Sermone Domini in Monte, cap. IX, 
23: “Probabilius est ergo quod audivi a quodam Hebraeo, cum id 
interrogassem (viz., the meaning of the word faxd): dixit enim esse 
vocem non significantem aliquid, sed indignantis animi motum ex- 
primentem. Has interjectiones grammatici vocant particulas orationis 
significantes commoti animi affectum: velut cum dicitur a dolente, 
Heu; vel ab irascente, Hem.”’—Wetstein ad loc: “ Raca vulgare ver- 
bum est apud Judaeos, quod non ex ira neque ex odio, sed ex aliquo 
motu vano dicebant, magis fiduciae causa quam iracundiae.” 

As for μωρός, or μῶρος, all Greek scholars know with how little anger 
or passion the word is used. Often indeed there is pity in the tone, 


Appendia. 77 


The justification of the change I have made—by inter- 
polation of some words into the interpretation which in the 
oral discourse could be implied sufficiently by tone—is 
this: the words as they commonly stand yield no good 
sense ; but as changed, their meaning is admirable, and . 
they become symmetrical in form with the context. 

[Had Mr. Rogers intended to introduce these words 
actually into the text, he would have written of course: 
ἐρρέθη δὲ τοῖς ἀρχαίοις" ὃς ἂν KTr., and ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω, 
ὃς ἂν εἴπῃ κτλ.] 





ERRATA. 


fee 35, line 2 from top, read ἐκτρέπουσα for ἐκτρεποῦσα. 
35, v. 697, anticipated by Pauw. 
“ 36, v. 766, read ἀραῖς for ἄραις. 
“46, v. 308, read ἔπειτ᾽ for ἔπείτ᾽. 
47, line 2 from bottom, read κεραυνός for κεραυόν-. 
ἐν δὲ “add the πο. of v. 711. 
“50, v. 777, read πίνῳ for πινῳ. 
50, v. 949, read ἀργυρωνήτους for ἀργυρονήτους. 
© 58, first line, read ends for end. 
58, v. 180, read πατέρ᾽ for πάτερ᾽. 








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